
Fighting the prejudice
Instead of outrage at the desperate people who are trying to reach Europe’s shores, public anger might be better directed at the prejudice which people from certain religions or with a certain skin colour face every day.
Saturday
5th Sep 2015

Instead of outrage at the desperate people who are trying to reach Europe’s shores, public anger might be better directed at the prejudice which people from certain religions or with a certain skin colour face every day.

Instead of gambling away our future as suppliers of journalistic content to Silicon Valley platforms, we should create our own European media initiative.

Trafficking in persons not only flourishes during a disaster, it is a direct result of disasters, every bit as much as the infrastructural damages, the loss of life or the food shortages which garner far more attention.
US markets are in turmoil. China is following in the footprints. What about Europe?
Western observers often say the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation was designed as a counterweight to Nato. Will it become one?
Europe must play a stronger role in global cyber security, which is becoming an increasingly strategic arena.

The Arctic is becoming a new frontier for a geopolitical tug-of-war between Russia and the West

The EU should not expect Russia to change its posture in the foreseeable future, because confrontational EU and US relations suit the Kremlin.

Portugal and Ireland do better than Germany in getting some EU parliament top jobs, if you consider relative size.

Six months into the new EU Digital VAT rules, thousands of EU microbusinesses have closed, geo-blocking is rampant, and the legislation threatens to kill the Digital Single Market.
Last weekend freeing of political prisoners in Belarus is a gambit and the West should react warily.
The standard of EU governance should be a reason for citizens to want to stay in the Union, rather than an excuse to leave.
Film studios like to back sequels as safe options, but why's Gazprom doing a follow-up to its German gas pipeline story?
Past concessions have merely delayed the day of reckoning with Bosnian Serb separatists.
Whether dealing with terrorism, extremism, racism or privacy concerns, the European default solution seems to involve chipping away at freedom of expression.
The statement issued by the North Atlantic Council on Tuesday said little but was still unable to hide the disunity within Nato.
If there is one man standing now for the ugly German, it is Wolfgang Schäuble
A far-right group is tapping into growing frustration among Ukrainians over the declining economy and tepid Western support.
Monday July 13 will go down in history as the day Greece lost its independence, the day democracy died in the country that invented it and the day the EU took a decisive step towards self-destruction.

If or when Iran open to the world, there's no guarantee the EU will be its preferred partner, amid competition from the China, Russia, and the US.

The EU shares the blame for this sad and avoidable situation. It should do some soul-searching while it watches up to 10 million Greek voters make their fateful decision.
With the current neoliberal austerity policies, other European countries will end up in the same misery and hopelessness as Greece.
The deadly attacks in Paris and Copenhagen have served as a wake-up call to European policy makers of the escalating reality of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism in Europe

Mandatory quotas have become the main issue in the European debate on the immigration crisis. But the heart of the problem lies in source countries.

Greece cannot legally be forced out of the euro in case of a default.
The EU is needlessly complicated. Let's make some changes.
Twenty years after the massacre, Srebrenica still triggers dispute, and an endless stream of resolutions.

Macron, Gabriel and their supporters can keep the red flag flying. The rest of us want less socialism and less centralisation in Europe.

There’s a stark contrast between the progress secured at the G7 meeting on Monday compared to the watering down of EU action on fossil fuel subsidies.
Last week’s statement by Hahn on Macedonia’s election record comes at a terrible time and gives the impression he's out of touch with reality.
Not all migrants are helpless indigents or feckless illegals: The EU must get a better idea of who they are before making policy on how to help.