Author: Aldo Caruso
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Toxic United Europe
My name is Armanda. I am 25 years old and a student of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. In November 2014, Eurojust has published the Official Report on the Strategic Project on Environmental Crime with the aim of analysing the current situation and the difficulties that national authorities face to prosecute the increasing…
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The Really Big Deal
My name is Julian. I am a 29-year old political analyst based in Berlin working for an independent, non-profit think tank. Finally, the dust of institutional reshuffling which started with the 2014 European Parliament elections has settled. The last act of this procedure was the approval of Jean-Claude Juncker’s college of Commissioners by the European…
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Towards a Pan-European Activism? The #FixEurope Autumn Camp 2014
My name is Rica. I am a student of political science and German language and literature at the University of Bremen. Between October 20-24 eighty political and cultural activists from all over the European continent gathered in a castle in the German Uckermark close to Berlin and discussed the rather complex question of how to…
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It’s Time to Fix Europe
My name is Giuseppe, I am 26 years old. I work in a library. I have a degree in Classical Literature and now I am studying Philosophy. I live in Eboli, a small town in southern Italy. Everything breaks sooner or later. There is a point in time, the last act in a series of…
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The New Architecture of EU Governance and the Upcoming Challenges
My name is Héctor. I am 25 years old and I am a political and international relations analyst. I work at a think tank in the beautiful city of Barcelona. What I write here reflects solely my own views. I recently attended a meeting where a study on citizens’ perceptions of the European Union was…
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TTIP and the Secrete Deal between EU and USA
My name is Armanda. I am 25 years old and a student of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. On 11 October 2014 thousands of people took to the streets all over Europe in order to express their opposition to TTIP(Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)-TAFTA(Transatlantic Free Trade Area). In a nutshell, TTIP is a…
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Europe: A Brief History of Its Idea from Ancient Greece to Montesquieu
My name is Giuseppe, I am 26 years old. I work in a library. I have a degree in Classical Literature and now I am studying Philosophy. I live in Eboli, a small town in southern Italy. The first clear description of modern Europe – of its culture and many other aspects – originates from…
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A European Union of Citizens?
My name is Daniel and I am 26-year old European Studies master student from Hanover, Germany. I consider myself as pro-European but EU-critical. To begin with, I would like to remind you of something which disappeared in the abyss of public inattention during the summer break. After all, the World Cup did not only fill…
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Tusk, Mogherini and the Defeat of Europe
My name is Giuseppe, I am 26 years old. I work in a library. I have a degree in Classical Literature and now I am studying Philosophy. I live in Eboli, a small town in southern Italy. The new European Commission is taking shape slowly, one day after another, while the memory of the European…
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Fast Economy, Slow Changes? Interns and their Struggle for Recognition in Germany
My name is Rica. I am a student of political science and German language and literature at the University of Bremen. Even before the adoption of a minimum wage in the coalition agreement of the current German government, there has been an ongoing public debate about internships. Somehow the term ‘Generation Internship’ popped up and…