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Technology and Power: Use of New Media in the Middle East. OxPeace 2011
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British EU Policy After The Election
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Common Values and Federalism in Europe
Author Profile: Kirsty Hughes
If Francois Hollande wins: what chance for a real change of direction in France and Europe?
Francois Hollande, candidate of the French Socialist Party, is still the frontrunner in the French presidential elections. But he is untested in government. And in the midst of the euro crisis and the eurozone’s commitments to binding austerity, what are … Continue reading
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What Future for a Greece in Crisis?
An early spring Sunday afternoon in Athens finds tourists and Greeks alike chattering away in cafes and on terraces soaking up the sunshine. But a walk around the centre soon reveals boarded up shops and buildings – many from closures, … Continue reading
Low Key EU Summit: Tired Europe mired in crisis and recession or rebounding?
As 25 of the EU’s 27 member states signed the fiscal treaty designed to put a line under the euro crisis on a grey and misty Brussels morning, the mood at the summit was low key and low energy (the … Continue reading
Another Summit, Another Bleak Day for European democracy
EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Monday for more ritual banging of the euro-austerity drum, with 25 of the 27 member states agreeing to the Germany-inspired ‘fiscal compact’ treaty – to be signed in March (only the Czechs joining David … Continue reading
Cameron taking UK out of Europe without a referendum?
When the ‘make or break’ summit to save the euro finished in Brussels on Friday afternoon, David Cameron headed rapidly for the exit without the traditional end of summit press conference (making do, unusually, with only an interim pre-dawn one … Continue reading
Europe in the Soup: Three Scenarios
In ‘Duck Soup‘ – the 1930s Marx brothers’ film – a powerful rich lady tells the ailing government of Freedonia, she will only bail them out with another loan, if her favourite – Groucho Marx – becomes president: chaos follows. … Continue reading
Europe’s political crisis at heart of eurozone meltdown
The first week of November 2011 has been a tipping point; the moment when it belatedly dawned on pundits and politicians alike that the euro crisis at heart is political – and that if it’s politics versus the markets, then … Continue reading
