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The economic crisis has global dimensions. Countries of Latin America and Europe  have been suffering its effects through the austerity plans, trade gaps and unemployment. So, some people are seeking the collective answers to global issues, trusting Latin America’s creativity on being a resistance pole to financial capital’s offensive.

The digital era is transforming the way in which people consume cultural products. It’s not uncommon for younger consumers to have neither a television nor a radio because the internet meets all their cultural needs from streaming and downloading music to  television, movies, books and news on demand from anywhere […]

As a European, a tech geek and a fan of free trade I’m all in favour of the proposed EU-US free trade area. But as with any big agreement there are quite a few caveats to be added: net neutrality activists are claiming that TAFTA is just another backdoor for […]

Workers used to be the most valuable resource of any industrialized country. Photo: Paul Stang   No good can come of it when proper planning is lacking is how we could sum up the past 20 years of Romanian industry. Until 1989, Romania was the fourth country in the world […]

Macedonia and Greece are neighbors and political foes. They have politically “disliked” each other (to put it mildly) since 1991 when Macedonia became independent. Tension between these two countries peaked back in 1994 when Macedonia was subject to a trade embargo from Greece. At the same time, from 1992 to […]