How did Switzerland, a country attached to the importance of personal privacy, respond after the story about the Snowden leaks broke? How did the government - and the public - react?
Most commentators have asked, “Can Britain survive without Europe?” Perhaps the opposite question is more pertinent.
This article looks at the basic framing devices of UKIP rhetoric in the European parliament, and some of their debates. It is taken from a Counterpoint series on populist rhetoric leading up to the European elections, including recommendations on how to respond to populist rhetoric.
All in all, the fall of an unpopular, corrupt and ineffective government in Ukraine initiated by pro-EU demonstrators has not helped strengthen European values overall or slowed the decline in the popularity of the EU in the continent as a whole.
It manages to strike hard without straying from the politics that have defined Poland's conciliatory and unifying role in the EU over the past decade.
Democracy is undermined at the national and has not developed at the European level. Is another road for Europe possible? Read in French; in Spanish.
