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Standing against the Spanish Anti-Gag Law should be a European challenge
The US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald recently wrote an article on The Intercept titled: “The greatest threat to free speech comes not from terrorism, but from those claiming to fight it”. In the UK, during the Queen’s Speech the new measures included in the Counter Terrorism Bill […]
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The Mediterranean Migration Crisis Part One: The Picture and the Thousand Words
If there is a word for the week of April 13th 2015, that word is tragedy. Not just a tragedy for the more than one thousand migrants and asylum seekers that drowned in search of a better life in Europe, not just a tragedy for their families, but a tragedy […]
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The threat of ISIS and Italy’s fear of others
Picture: Lampedusa by Noborder Network, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) In the light of recent expansion of the Islamic State in the zones of Tripoli and Tobruk, Italy became the next frontline country in the crusade against Islamic extremism. Rome fears terrorist strikes, calls up for a NATO intervention, but […]
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The Spanish abortion draft fell under voting intentions and feminist groups pressure
Every 28th of September women health advocates claim for world changes in the International Day of Decriminalization of Abortion. This year in Spain more than 3,000 people gathered to celebrate after having won the battle against the Ministry of Justice with the drop of an abortion bill estimated as […]
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Eurosceptics on the rise in Italy and in the UK….is the end of Europe as we know it?
This year’s European elections can definitely be considered the most important since their institution in 1979 and fall during a time where the same ideas of the European project, which finds its original roots in views expressed by figures like Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi in the Ventotene manifesto. The European electoral campaign in […]