B ehind closed doors at the Place de Fontenot in Paris, international diplomats are voting on who will head the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
The international organization which controls millions of…
T he Catalan referendum and attempted secession have given birth to a stormy public debate all over Europe, and beyond. Since the events in Catalonia appear to be far from their conclusion, this discussion…
I n mid-September, together with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the German Bundestag Marieluis Beck, and former US Ambassador to NATO Alexander Versbow, I…
3.8 million refugees and immigrants arrived in the EU in 2014. The migratory flow is expected to stay at 1.5 million people/year until 2036.
Besides language and cultural barriers, the migrant population suffers…
N orway is set to become the first country in the world to end FM radio broadcasts. Other countries are closely watching Norway’s transition from FM to a form of digital broadcasts known as…
F ollowing Hassan Rouhani’s victory in Iran’s latest election and the beginning of the second term of his presidency, observers of Iranian affairs are attempting to determine the changes in Rouhani’s policies concerning the…
O scillating between conflict and cooperation, the EU-Russia relations are of strategic importance in key policy areas such as European security
The turbulent developments after the outbreak of the crisis in and over Ukraine, the…
T he Aegean basin and the Anatolian land, where “Greek Love” gets its name, both have been homeland of nice LGBT heroes and thinkers throughout history.
The concept of homosexuality, which is met with…
I n Perry Anderson’s magisterial book on the European Union, The New Old World, he sums up what has become a perennial conundrum of the soon-to-be 27-member union’s future:
“Democratisation can still be deferred. But…
Robespierre said in one of his speeches, “The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death”.
In other words,…