“The decision of the American people must be interpreted as the victory of freedom, the freedom of a sovereign people”, Marine Le Pen tweeted just hours after president-elect Donald Trump locked down the 270 electoral votes that set him on ...
This past week, the Turkish Chief of the General Staff sailed along the coast of a set of Aegean islands that have been the center of contested claims between Turkey and Greece. The following day, the Greek government announced that ...
The powerhouse economy of Europe. The de facto leader of the European Union. The champion of human rights and freedom of movement. And now – perhaps the last line of defense for Western liberal democracy against populism, nationalism and isolationism. ...
Renewable energy and Scandinavia have become practically synonymous. Beginning in the 1970s, after the Arab Oil Crisis of the 1970s sent shockwaves around the global economy, the northern countries of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland began to relieve their unsustainable dependence ...
The Referendum At present, the lower and the upper chambers of Parliament have identical powers. No bill becomes law until they can agree on a common text. The reform attempted to change the constitution by reducing the powers of the ...
On Friday, June 24, the world woke up in an alternate reality. The unthinkable had happened: overnight, one of the European Union’s most influential members had voted to turn its back on the world’s leading institution for transnational cooperation, a ...
In the 1990s, scholars argued that “the EU would rule the 21st century by virtue of its proven capacity to manage and regulate a continental sized economy.” Such assertions of confidence in the European project are now forgotten. Instead, the ...
Nisha Kale In London, Brexit seems to have taken the city by shock. Walking through the streets of central London, people stand everywhere with political signs, and the news plays in every open shop. There is an air of panic and uncertainty. ...
When a church closes its doors for the last time, it can be a gut-wrenching, emotional experience for the community. A place that once held peonies at weddings, poinsettias at Christmas time and lilies at Easter will now begin to ...
When Pressure for Political Consensus Blinds Policymaking The EU deadlock on refugee policy is not so much an immigration crisis as it is one of European solidarity. Plans of redistribution quotas between member states have failed repeatedly. Of the 160,000 ...