By Gregory Lens The most recent annual ILGA Rainbow Europe report painted a bleak picture on the current level of progress for LGBT rights in the eastern part of the European Union. Commitments to equality are either stalling, or even completely vanishing from national political agendas. In eastern member states, governments are backtracking on theirContinue reading “How the Catholic Church continues to hinder LGBT rights progress in Europe”
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Where Europe overflows: Russia as a colonial power
By Anna Woudstra Pardoen One often tends to forget that Russia, in whatever iteration of its existence it was in, has been a colonial empire. Whereas other colonial powers journeyed overseas to find, claim and exploit new lands and territories, Russia expanded over land, northwards into the lands of the Finnic and Sami peoples, eastwardsContinue reading “Where Europe overflows: Russia as a colonial power”
EU-Mercosur Agreement: a shift in the EU’s mindset?
By Ilaria Sacco In the last days of the Juncker Commission (June 2019), the EU and the Mercosur (the Common market of the South formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) reached an “agreement in principle” on the trade pillar (the so-called Free Trade Agreement, or FTA). The FTA would save over €4 billion worthContinue reading “EU-Mercosur Agreement: a shift in the EU’s mindset?”
IOM’s recipe: integrating migration issues into EU development policy
By Anastasiia Vasileva It is no secret that the 2015 migration crisis has changed the European Union (EU) dramatically and put a divide into its ‘speaking with one voice’ strategy. Until today, a number of projects have been put in place by the EU towards migration management and regulation policies reducing the incentives for illegalContinue reading “IOM’s recipe: integrating migration issues into EU development policy”
Media freedom in times of crisis: growing concerns and unsettled issues in the EU
By Myriam Marino Poland and Hungary, already protagonists of the dispute connected to the rule of law mechanism of the EU budget in the ending months of 2020, are once again at the center of a question pertaining to rule of law and democracy. More precisely, on Wednesday March 10th, 2021, a debate took place in theContinue reading “Media freedom in times of crisis: growing concerns and unsettled issues in the EU”
The Undiplomatic Diplomat
By Arbër Berisha When describing a diplomat, the words “hack”, “shill”, “nasty” and “dishonest” should not come to one’s mind. However, those are the exact words former U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice used to describe Richard Grenell. Her words will resonate with political circles in Germany. The aforementioned adjectives partially depict a bully, anContinue reading “The Undiplomatic Diplomat”
