2016 will be remembered as the year in which the European Union definitively broke the civilisation pact on which it was founded after the Second World War.
DiEM25, the movement to democratize the European Union, is urged to rethink its approach, taking events of the last two years properly into account. Interview.
European cosmopolitans run the risk of remaining unheard by the very people suffering the democratic deficit the most, to whom the initiative DiEM25, should be able to speak.
We do need borders – but these needn’t be barricades. Español
Necesitamos fronteras, pero éstas no tienen por qué ser barricadas. English
How did a tiny, inconsequential bit of local news in Amsterdam get picked up and made a major discussion topic in Italy's media?
The hotspot works as a preemptive frontier, with the double goal of blocking migrants at Europe’s southern borders, and simultaneously impeding the highest number possible of refugees from claiming asylum.
The ‘hotspot’ system for migrants remains an experiment, but it entails the implementation at the national level of human-rights-violating policies elaborated at the EU level.
An unsavoury media dish was served up in the Italian news on the occasion of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani's visit to Rome last week. But was it all a case of much ado about nothing?
If Matteo Renzi hoped to gain support among Italian eurosceptics in his quarrel with Jean-Claude Juncker, the reaction on Twitter says he was not so successful.
The new Italian Jobs Act brings to completion a process of decimation of workers' rights and protections which began in the 1990s.
