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Category Archives: France
Jun 15 2021
The Weaponization of Laïcité Against Muslims: Pushing More Towards Extremism
Comments Off on The Weaponization of Laïcité Against Muslims: Pushing More Towards ExtremismBy Tanzila Jamal In the last decade, France has seen particularly devastating terrorist attacks with incidents such as the Nice truck attack in 2016 sustaining a death count of nearly 84 people, the series of stabbings at the Notre Dame … Continue reading
Posted by: June 15, 2021
Tagged with: Islam, laïcité, Macron
Nov 19 2015
Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Paris
Comments Off on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and ParisBy Richard English FBA The appalling events in Paris on 13 November force us, once again, to think carefully about the paradoxically intimate relationship between terrorism and counter-terrorism. The immediate response we should all feel is one of horror at … Continue reading
Posted by: November 19, 2015
Tagged with: counter-terrorism, ISIS, Paris, Terrorism
Nov 17 2015
The Paris Attacks
Comments Off on The Paris AttacksBy Patrice De Beer The morning after was horrible, like a moral, emotional hangover. Even for a former war correspondent who has covered too many wars and massacres, but who has, for the first time, witnessed shooting at a stone’s … Continue reading
Sep 21 2015
Can the EU be hospitable?
5 CommentsBy Jasmine Gani The recent refugee crisis in Europe has been an embarrassing and damaging episode for the EU, which prides itself on its humanitarian credentials. The awful and tragic image of the little boy Alan Kurdi that went viral … Continue reading
Posted by: September 21, 2015
Tagged with: European identity, European Neighbourhood Policy, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, Schengen, Syrian refugees
Aug 28 2015
Fortress Europe: Cause or Consequence of Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis’?
3 CommentsBy Catherine Briddick Europe, it seems, is facing a ‘migration crisis’. This crisis is ‘testing’ for, amongst others, the British public, because, as our Prime Minister David Cameron explained in an interview with ITV News: you have got a swarm … Continue reading
Posted by: August 28, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, human rights, humanitarian visas, international law, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee law, refugees, Syrian refugees, trafficking
Aug 20 2015
Syria’s Refugees: When did the West Become so Heartless?
1 CommentBy Christopher Phillips Recently I went to see Miss Saigon at the West End, a tragic musical set in the years after the Vietnam War. In one scene, the lead characters flee on a crowded boat full of migrants from … Continue reading
Posted by: August 20, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, Syrian refugees, UNHCR, Vietnames boat people
Dec 17 2014
European Social Immobility and Inequality are Intimately Related
2 CommentsBy Terence Tse and Mark Esposito One of the most staggering collaterals of the financial crisis, globally but particularly so in Europe, has been the increase of inequality across social fabrics, as we previously outlined in relation to the US. … Continue reading
Posted by: December 17, 2014
Tagged with: CVs, hiring practices, social mobility, youth unemployment
May 28 2014
Disengagement, Division and the ‘Peasants’ Revolt’
2 CommentsBy Marley Morris “A kind of peasants’ revolt”. So said Boris Johnson of the European election results on Monday in a – typically English – evaluation of the events. Yet the picture is much more nuanced – and varied – than he makes out. … Continue reading
Posted by: May 28, 2014
Tagged with: European Elections 2014, European Union, Euroscepticism, populism
May 21 2014
The Crises in the Eurozone and Ukraine Have Heralded the ‘Return of Politics’ to European Integration
3 CommentsBy Luuk van Middelaar On New Year’s Eve 2011, a sober but moving ceremony took place in the Estonia theatre in Tallinn. Prime-minister Ansip withdrew his country’s first euros from an ATM outside the building, walked back inside and delivered … Continue reading
Posted by: May 21, 2014
Tagged with: banking union, Euro crisis, European Elections 2014, European identity, European integration, European Public Sphere, European Union, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Germany, Public Sphere
Oct 5 2013
The Missing Crisis – European citizens, the media and communication about the crisis
4 CommentsBy Johanna Möller If one takes into account media coverage on the various European crises, one could easily assume that citizens’ trust in the European project is being severely eroded. The news media do not only routinely present a scene of … Continue reading
Posted by: October 5, 2013
Tagged with: Audiences, citizens, disengagement, Euro crisis, media, News, Research