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ETNO has been the voice of Europe’s telecommunications network operators since 1992 and has become the principal policy group for European electronic communications network operators. Its 50 members and observers in 35 countries collectively ...
Cyprus, cognisant of its size and experience as a member state, wants its presidency of the European Union to be one that facilitates and navigates through the Union’s agenda without fanfare or grand statements ...
German Economy Minister, Philipp Roesler, has urged the EU to appoint a special commissioner assigned to supervise the implementation of reforms in member states affected by the debt crisis. Germany had already proposed a similar ...
In his article “The Challenges for European Identity” Francis Fukuyama claims the undergoing crisis in the European Union is primarily a crisis over its identity rather than economic or political foundations. While the author's ...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided that European scientists cannot patent stem cells derived from the destruction of human embryos. The decision (October 10) was made under legislation that prevents the ...
The Nobel Prize announcement has triggered another round of EU bashing. There are many reasons today to be critical of the EU. Any positive appraisal of the EU project could be seen counter-intuitive. Keeping this ...
When people in Scotland or Flanders or Catalonia talk of independence, they have an invisible but powerful ally: globalization. Nations no longer need as much territory to be viable as they did in the period ...
On Borders, Ostkreuz Agency Photographers, Hatje Cantz, Ð38.00. They offer protection, lead to war, limit freedom or enable it; they have always been there and will continue to exist: borders. Hardly anything else is ...
At a first glance, Belarus appears to be a calm and empty country, which many consider to be stuck in a Soviet-era time warp. Others describe it as a black hole, a ghost country. But ...
Aleksandr Lukashenko is resilient. The President of Belarus has stood firm against the European Union (EU) and its renewed political and economic sanctions in response to his increasingly autocratic rule. In six months, he has ...
As Jürgen Habermas’ new book "The Crisis of the European Union: A Response" arrived at bookstores, The Global Journal asked Francis Fukuyama to interview the German philosopher, one of the most influential thinkers of ...
Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, Matthew Carr, Hurst & Co, £20.00. “On 28 May 1999, a Sudanese asylum seeker named Aamir Ageed died during a deportation flight from Frankfurt to Cairo, after police ...
Media freedom remains elusive and yet necessary in the post-communist sphere. The European Union, in particular, struggles to find the middle ground between intervention, controlling the media, and supporting full decommunization. Indeed, recent events in ...
Philippe Van Parijs is a central figure in the worlds of philosophy and politics alike. Described by Amartya Sen as “one of the most original and creative thinkers of our time,” he is famous for ...
Unlike the European and (grumbling) American airline companies, China refuses to pay charges imposed by the European Union on carbon emissions. "The Civil Aviation Administration of China recently issued a directive to Chinese airlines that ...
On Saturday morning (June 30, 2012), Door IV of Geneva’s Palais des Nations was buzzing with security officers and bodyguards. At the UN Office, Geneva’s Director General, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, together with his most ...
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, addresses an audience at Bilkent Univeristy Ankara upon receiving a Doctorat Honoris Causa, 15 March 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, Being with you in "bilim kenti," the city ...
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