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Tag Archives: refugee crisis
Jul 23 2018
The nationalist Italian government is a challenge to the Church
Comments Off on The nationalist Italian government is a challenge to the ChurchBy Alessandro Franzi The new Italian government, formed by the Five Stars Movement and the League, also poses a challenge to the Catholic Church. However, it is not only its populist tones that create a division between State and religious … Continue reading
Posted by: July 23, 2018
Tagged with: catholic church, immigration, Italy, Matteo Salvini, Nationalism, Pope, refugee crisis
Dec 16 2017
Governing Migration: The Responsibility of European Society and the Limits of Morality
Comments Off on Governing Migration: The Responsibility of European Society and the Limits of MoralityBy Federico Nicolaci Contemporary mass migration patterns and dynamics pose an entirely new set of questions that European leadership should urgently articulate and answer. It is not easy: the issue is highly contentious and countries have different views as to … Continue reading
Posted by: December 16, 2017
Tagged with: Morality, refugee crisis, Security
Jul 12 2017
Renaissance or Decline? Europe‘s Crisis of Solidarity
2 CommentsBy Federico Nicolaci It is plain, and painful, to see: Europe’s existential crisis, which broke out almost eight years ago, far from gradually finding its solution, is worsening month by month. Not without a certain amount of irony, the disintegration … Continue reading
Posted by: July 12, 2017
Tagged with: EU, Euro crisis, refugee crisis, Solidarity
Oct 27 2016
The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future Scenarios
Comments Off on The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future ScenariosBy Pınar Dinç and Irem Aydemir The Arab Spring started the fire in 2011, and ever since the whole MENA region has been in turmoil. The civil war in Syria has quickly become a global one with the ongoing war … Continue reading
Posted by: October 27, 2016
Tagged with: eu-turkey deal, migration, refugee crisis, Syrian refugees, Turkey
May 20 2016
The EU’s Operation Sophia Has Failed to Make Conditions Safer for Refugees
Comments Off on The EU’s Operation Sophia Has Failed to Make Conditions Safer for RefugeesBy 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
Posted by: May 20, 2016
Tagged with: EUNAVFOR MED, Libya, Mediterranean, refugee crisis, refugee law, Syrian refugees
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 21 2016
Europe’s Human Rights Crisis
2 CommentsBy 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
Posted by: March 21, 2016
Tagged with: asylum, asylum seekers, EU, human rights, immigration, Refugee Convention, refugee crisis, refugee law, refugees
Feb 25 2016
The International Politics of the Refugee Crisis
Comments Off on The International Politics of the Refugee CrisisBy Vassilios Paipais Last Wednesday, Vienna hosted a meeting of Balkan countries involving Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia in divisive move that deliberately excluded the Greek government from decisions concerning the tackling of the mounting refugee … Continue reading
Posted by: February 25, 2016
Tagged with: immigration, NATO, refugee crisis, Russia, Syria, Syrian refugees
Nov 2 2015
As Europe looks fearfully outside, its liberal democracy is under attack from within
3 CommentsBy Cas Mudde Liberal democracy in Europe is under threat once more. This time, however, the threat comes from within the European elite. What can be done to remedy this situation? If one believes the international media, then the “refugee … Continue reading
Posted by: November 2, 2015
Tagged with: far-right, Hungary, Liberal Democracy, refugee crisis