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Category Archives: Media
May 15 2019
A Polarized yet Hollow Debate: The Journalistic Coverage of the Greek Memoranda
Comments Off on A Polarized yet Hollow Debate: The Journalistic Coverage of the Greek MemorandaBy Christos Kostopoulos The three memoranda signed between various Greek governments and the creditor Troika have been one of the most important European political issues in this decade, generating a lot of journalistic and scholarly interest. This article presents findings … Continue reading
Jan 10 2019
Spain is no longer exceptional: Mainstream media and the far-right party Vox
3 CommentsBy Sergio Olalla, Enrique Chueca and Javier Padilla For a long time Spain and Portugal have been considered exceptions within the European Union due to the lack of a far-right political party with representation in parliament. However, this situation is … Continue reading
Posted by: January 10, 2019
Tagged with: Andalusia, media coverage, Vox
Jun 5 2017
How the General Election 2017 Campaign is Shaping Up on Twitter
Comments Off on How the General Election 2017 Campaign is Shaping Up on TwitterBy Stefan Bauchowitz and Max Hänska If we are to believe the pundits, social media has played an outsized role in recent political events, and so it is not surprising that its role in the upcoming General Election has been … Continue reading
Posted by: June 5, 2017
Tagged with: 2017 elections, general election, hastags, Labour, Social Media, twitter, UK elections
Oct 20 2016
Democracy Between Compromise and Control
Comments Off on Democracy Between Compromise and ControlBy Henry Radice The slogan ‘take back control’ was widely credited as a key factor in the UK’s vote to leave the EU on June 23rd. That vote revealed many cleavages in how we understand our democracy. One significant one … Continue reading
Posted by: October 20, 2016
Tagged with: Borders, Brexit, control, Referendum
Apr 20 2016
The myths that are preventing us from solving the refugee crisis
3 CommentsBy 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
Posted by: April 20, 2016
Tagged with: asylum, Europe, media, Mediterranean, migration, refugee crisis
Mar 28 2016
The political ‘migration crisis’ and the military-humanitarian response
1 CommentBy 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
Posted by: March 28, 2016
Tagged with: border control, humanitarian emergency, humanitarian space, humanitarianism, immigration, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee crisis, refugees
Mar 10 2016
Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish Press
Comments Off on Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish PressBy Kate Cyr Istanbul’s 2013 Gezi Park protests unearthed muddy tales of corruption, bias, and authoritarianism that powerful conglomerates and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would have preferred buried indefinitely. The government received global scrutiny as anyone from … Continue reading
Posted by: March 10, 2016
Tagged with: Erdogan, Freedom of the press, Kurdistan, PKK, Turkish media
Sep 15 2015
How Europe talks about itself: Lessons from the Euro Crisis
Comments Off on How Europe talks about itself: Lessons from the Euro CrisisBy Robert G. Picard Although the continuing Euro Crisis is currently being overshadowed by the refugee crisis in Europe, its economic and political effects continue to shake the foundation of Europe and dampen national economies. There are lessons to be … Continue reading
Posted by: September 15, 2015
Tagged with: Eurocrisis, European governance, European identity, European integration, European media
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