European Union

It was expected that media would be seen writing about the Lehman Brothers last weekend. Anniversaries always come as a perfect excuse to open the discussion about the wounds caused by the year 2008. While marking the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, once-mighty US investment bank, it is clear enough that the […]

DOMINIK SCHLETT Europe’s future depends on the management of migration. While in Germany the public debate shifted in favour of extreme right wing demands, the campaign DARE2MOVE as a part of Act4FreeMovement program aims to support non-German EU-citizens living in Berlin to advocate for their free movement rights. Migration and social rights lawyer and governing […]

Three months ago, six people died at the Unipetrol chemical plant in Kralupy nad Vltavou. We went to discover what conditions they worked in.

After years of blocking eurozone reforms at every turn, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suddenly come out in favor of a common budget. But the reason is not that she has seen the economic light…

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom announced its decision to leave the EU. Two years after, #MarchForANewEurope was organised in Berlin, where around one thousand people took to the streets during the demonstration. The march was simultaneously held in Cologne, Munich, Copenhagen and Brussels. “For nationalists and populists, it’s become a day of celebration. […]

„Pod Save Austria” Addresses on the State of the Nation(s) In dependence of the French intellectual Julien Benda, who had imagined a speech to the European nation from within the uprising fascism, Ulrike Guérot addresses european citizens today with an appeal to complement the one market and the one currency by one common european Democracy. […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe. Over the past years, European citizens have seen a failure of transnational solidarity in the European Union. In the year 2015 two things happened at the same time: structures for solidarity with Greece failed, and solidarity […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary Demos: Solidarity in Europe. Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit at the London School of Economics. She pioneered the concept of ‘new wars’ and ‘global civil society’, and her […]

On Brexit, the future of Europe and DiEM25’s vision.

Two years ago in Berlin, Yanis Varoufakis launched the project DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), a „democratic, pan-European and cross-border” political movement. DiEM25 intended to build a democratic Europe from an internationalist project in order to meet the various crises crisscrossing the continent (debt, banking, poverty, low investment and migration), and to tackle the […]