Migration

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 […]

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. 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 […]

JUDITH SUNDERLAND After almost three months of jumping up and down in place, the newly invested Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has hit the ground running in the worst possible direction. The head of the anti-immigrant party, the League, Salvini has positioned himself as the strongman in the unlikely coalition government recently formed with the […]

*The following is an edited transcript of an interview conducted for European Alternatives’ forthcoming documentary, Demos: Solidarity in Europe.  European Alternatives: Tell us a bit about your work in Sail for Children. What exactly is it that you do? Sail for Children:  Here at Sail for Children we restore boats seized from the mafia and […]

Talk Real presents ‘Talk Real – Art Real’, a series of episodes about artistic projects and social practices from grassroots movements that aim to counteract the dominant discourses of crisis and threat in the so-called “refugee crisis”.

The Refugee crisis appears to be a convenient moment for Poland to shut down the “Belarusian route” for migrants from the Russian North Caucasus and other former Soviet states.