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Read moreSocial Exclusion in South East Asia and Europe
I’m Christoforos, an expat Greek in his late twenties who tries to make the most out of his nomadic life. With background in media and communications, I experience the daily struggle to find accurate information and stay open to new theories that might convince me to re-consider. I more or less disappeared from the online […]
Read moreAn Apology of Populism (4): Democracy by Conflict, not by Consensus
My name is Sebastiano I’m a 24 years old student in Macroeconomics and co-founder of TRAM:E (Theory, Reflection, Action, Movement: Europe). Born Italian, raised Belgian, French, German. Migrant by nature. Boundaries, borders… not my thing. Polyglot. “I don’t know what distinguishes us”. The Socialist Spitzenkandidat Martin Schulz couldn’t have found better words to put in […]
Read moreAn Apology of Populism (3): Eurocriticals and the Federalist Leap
My name is Sebastiano I’m a 24 years old student in Macroeconomics and co-founder of TRAM:E (Theory, Reflection, Action, Movement: Europe). Born Italian, raised Belgian, French, German. Migrant by nature. Boundaries, borders… not my thing. Polyglot. All Eurosceptic parties considered in the previous two posts (first and second) are – despite their ideological differences and […]
Read moreAn Apology of Populism (2): Lost in Formation
My name is Sebastiano I’m a 24 years old student in Macroeconomics and co-founder of TRAM:E (Theory, Reflection, Action, Movement: Europe). Born Italian, raised Belgian, French, German. Migrant by nature. Boundaries, borders… not my thing. Polyglot. By my count – a very subjective one, I reckon, following the categorisation in the previous post –166 Eurosceptics […]
Read moreSome Thoughts on Podemos
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. One of the most surprising facts in the European election in Spain were the five […]
Read moreAn Apology of Populism (1): What is a “Populist” in Today’s Europe?
My name is Sebastiano I’m a 24 years old student in Macroeconomics and co-founder of TRAM:E (Theory, Reflection, Action, Movement: Europe). Born Italian, raised Belgian, French, German. Migrant by nature. Boundaries, borders… not my thing. Polyglot. A good few weeks have gone by since May 25th. The elections are over and all related frenzy has […]
Read moreThe Summit Is Postponed, Youth Unemployment Is Still There
My name is Armanda. I am 25 years old and a student of Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. On 11 July, the European Summit on Youth Unemployment should have taken place in Turin. Offically, the Italian government headed by Renzi has judged it more appropriate to postpone the meeting to the end of […]
Read moreIs Europe Moving in the Right Direction?
My name is Dilek. I am 21 years old. I study European Studies and Law at the University of Osnabruck, Germany and I’m currently the president of the local AEGEE (European Students’ Forum). Last May, we had the first European Elections in the middle of the European (identity) crisis. These elections were important not only […]
Read moreA Story about Rain and Other Italian Things
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. Before trying to analyse the current Italian political landscape, allow me to begin with an anecdote about the […]
Read moreReally Surprised?
I’m Christoforos, an expat Greek in his late twenties who tries to make the most out of his nomadic life. With background in media and communications, I experience the daily struggle to find accurate information and stay open to new theories that might convince me to re-consider. Why are EU commentators making such efforts to […]
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