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  • Economic crisis turns into popular uprising

    The deep economic crisis which is slapping the European Union has evolved into a social crisis with growing resistance to EU economic policies. The "European Spring" is rapidly paving its way across the continent. Social...

  • Colombia: French journalist kidnapped, conflict resolution back to zero?

    Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is suspected of holding French journalist Roméo Langlois. The rebel group announced in February that they would no longer kidnap civilians for...

  • Bolivia: Emergency declared on May day

    On the occasion of the May day, Bolivian president Evo Morales announced the nationalization of the Spanish-owned Transportadora de Electricidad (TDE). A déjà vu; similar to the declaration of nationalizing Bolivia’s oil and...

  • Louise Arbour: 'The West is very ambiguous about human rights'

    The world is a pretty unsafe place for citizens; and that’s more often because of economic uncertainty than terrorism or political extremism, according to Louise Arbour. Can the West do anything about that? Is it good that...

  • Europe's broken promises: where is the culture in development?

    In April 2009, the European Commission promised to give priority to culture in development. Today, the Commission does not even mention culture anymore in its recent communication An Agenda for Change. What happened?

  • Is the European Investment Bank worth its money?

    Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) saw their role in development finance increase significantly in recent years. However, their contribution to sustainable development is far from clear. A thorough assessment of...

  • Rising Asia and Old Europe need to work together

    Tempting as it may be, it would be wrong to write off Europe as yesterday’s power. Europe still matters even though this is not the message some EU policymakers have been sending out to a watching world.

  • Bleak horizon

    In spite of the efforts made by NGOs and the distribution of EU funds, Europe’s main minority is no better off than it was 10 years ago. A lack of appropriate supervision in Brussels, the corruption of local leaders and the...

  • Yemen: “The genie of change is out of the bottle”

    The protest movement in Yemen won’t lie down, notwithstanding an unyielding old elite. All the while, concurrently with the revolution, different opposing groups are engaged in their political fencing, each with their own...

  • Amiri Baraka: Poetry for the 99%

    Considered one of the big names in contemporary American literature, he became famous in the sixties as an avant-garde poet in New York and is now on the barricades alongside the Occupy movement. A portrait of Amiri Baraka...

Opinion

  • Desislava Stoyanova
    Is the European Investment Bank worth its money?

    Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) saw their role in development finance increase significantly in recent years. However, their contribution to sustainable development is far from clear. A thorough assessment of...

  • Giles Merritt and Shada Islam
    Rising Asia and Old Europe need to work together

    Tempting as it may be, it would be wrong to write off Europe as yesterday’s power. Europe still matters even though this is not the message some EU policymakers have been sending out to a watching world.

  • Tom Kenis
    Syria: to intervene or not to intervene?

    To intervene or not to intervene. Among Syria’s neighbors, the question looms ever larger. Turkish talk of humanitarian corridors and the Red Cross’s pleas for access to Homs and other flashpoint cities is reminiscent of...

  • Tom Kenis
    Tahrir is here

    Worldwide tens of thousands of people marched protesting governments’ austerity measures, unemployment, financial institutions run like casinos, public bailouts of those same financial institutions, ecological decay, war, and...