The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union thanks all young bloggers who participated in the 2016 version of the blog ‘Young Voices of Europe’. The blog ‘Young Voices of Europe’ has (temporarily) ceased its activities.
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Breaking down the Term Nationalism
Nationalism constitutes a value-laden word and conjures up memories of an abhorrent and dark past that swept Europe during the 20th century; a historical period fraught with acts of extreme savagery. To have and express nationalist sentiments can often be problematic in the current context as it might connote a repulsive reflection of human nature […]
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Queerness and the Gay-Friendly Right Wing in Europe
How homophobic is the European far right? While right-wing populist parties do not particularly stand out as the most gay-friendly ones, many of their supporters would probably say that they’re not homophobic at all! Increasingly, parties such as the Front National (FN) in France, the Dutch Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV), or the German Alternative […]
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What Happened to the Uniforms?
The interwar years were the golden age of political imagery. As during the revolutionary era of the late-18th Century, the rise of new mass movements was accompanied by an equally potent visual vocabulary, disseminated via new technologies that could reach potential supporters like never before. In contrast to earlier eras, however, the 1920s and 30s […]
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It is Our Duty to Help the Refugees
These days it is not easy to write an article about the refugee issue since the conditions change every day. Still, in my view we can identify three main tendencies, which have surfaced recently: 1) the return of borders· the re-introduction of border controls and even the construction of walls and fences, 2) a shift […]
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Brexit or BrexIn: Britain Decides its European Fate
Following the conclusion of David Cameron’s EU ‘renegotiation’ deal at the EU summit in Brussels on February 19, he announced a day later that the referendum is to be held on June 23 – marking the effective beginning of the campaign which will settle the ‘Brexit’ question. We have been here before. In 1975, Britain […]
Read moreThe Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union thanks all young bloggers who participated in the 2014 version of the blog ‘Young Voices of Europe’. We proudly present the cast for the new edition: Miriam Folashade Ajayi (1989) was born in Germany, studies Social Science in Berlin and is an activist. Juliette Alibert (1992) is from Bordeaux (France) and […]
Read moreThe Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union thanks all young bloggers who participated in the 2014 version of the blog ‘Young Voices of Europe’. We proudly present the cast for the new edition: Miriam Folashade Ajayi (1989) was born in Germany, studies Social Science in Berlin and is an activist. Juliette Alibert (1992) is from Bordeaux (France) and […]
Read moreToxic 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 […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreTowards 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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