Category Archives: Europe

Jun 2 2016

EU Migrant Workers’ Welfare Rights: the New Fair Game

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Posted in: Europe, Migration

By Alessio Colonnelli Political success will be measured by how many EU economic migrants one manages to put off – a race to the bottom gradually spreading across Europe. Four months before succumbing to leukaemia, Guido Westerwelle conceded his last … Continue reading →

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May 20 2016

The EU’s Operation Sophia Has Failed to Make Conditions Safer for Refugees

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Posted in: Europe, Migration

By Mollie Gerver In June 2015 the EU instituted a naval force, the EUNAVFOR MED, to destroy boats used by people smugglers. Two months later, in August 2015, a German vessel rescued a pregnant Somali woman named Rahma Abukar Ali, … Continue reading →

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May 6 2016

Defenestrations: (Un)Framing the EU Referendum Debate, Part I

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Posted in: EU ref, Europe, Euroscepticism, Henry Radice, United Kingdom

By Henry Radice Observing (full disclosure: from the perspective of a strong supporter of Remain) the politics of the UK’s upcoming EU referendum, a number of problematic framings of the question of British membership of the EU appear relevant to … Continue reading →

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Apr 20 2016

The myths that are preventing us from solving the refugee crisis

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Posted in: Europe, Media, Migration

By Zoe Gardner The preventable deaths of another 400 people in the Mediterranean on Monday morning must be a wake-­up call. The British and European approach to the migrant and refugee humanitarian crisis simply isn’t working. For all of the … Continue reading →

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Apr 13 2016

From Hybrid Peace to Human Security: Rethinking EU Strategy towards Conflict

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Posted in: Balkans, Europe, Migration, Ukraine

A recent publication of likely interest to Euro Crisis in the Press readers is the The Berlin Report of the Human Security Study Group. Entitled ‘From Hybrid Peace to Human Security: Rethinking EU Strategy towards Conflict’, it was presented to … Continue reading →

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Apr 5 2016

The EU, a Fair-Weather Ship Between Scylla and Charybdis 

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Posted in: Europe, Max Hänska, Nationalism

By Max Hänska The EU faces debilitation by multiple crises: economic malaise and high unemployment, an influx of refugee and mounting security concerns. They all lay bare that resilience was not build into the EU’s architecture, it lacks the institutional … Continue reading →

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Mar 28 2016

The political ‘migration crisis’ and the military-humanitarian response

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Posted in: Europe, Italy, Media, Migration

By Pierluigi Musarò ‘We need more than a humanitarian response […] We need political leadership and action,’ Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said on 8 March 2016. Referring to the fact that ‘Europe is now seeing … Continue reading →

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Mar 21 2016

Europe’s Human Rights Crisis

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Posted in: Europe, Euroscepticism, Migration, Nationalism, Turkey, United Kingdom

By Natasha Saunders Fidelity to one’s principles is measured by how they are honoured in times of crisis. Hannah Arendt – a refugee who fled Nazi Germany and became one of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century … Continue reading →

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Mar 16 2016

The EU’s olive oil diplomacy: Italian fears and prospects for Tunisia

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Posted in: Europe, Italy

By Stefano M. Torelli On 10 March, the European Parliament voted in favor of a measure allowing Tunisia to export yearly 35,000 tons of olive oil tax-free in the European Union, for two years. That is, Tunisia will be allowed … Continue reading →

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Mar 4 2016

Argentina debt restructuring deal – 15 years too late!

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Posted in: Europe, Greece

By Kanad Bagchi On 28th February 2016, Argentina finally reached a settlement with the rest of its holdout creditors lead by Elliot Management in what is being hailed as ‘historic’ signalling the return of Argentina to international bond markets. While … Continue reading →

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