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Five years after the Arab Spring: a wilted flower in a destroyed field

Five years ago, the so-called Arab Spring started in Tunisia when thousands of young people protested against Ben Ali’s regime, demanding democracy and dignity. Later on, this spring of democracy began generating small flowers in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Bahrain. Today, the only wilted flower which remains is the Tunisian one. Tunisia, which has been seen […]

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is neither progressive nor feminist

By Adam Reichardt

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been praised repeatedly as a feminist breakthrough. The two new protagonists from London, Daisy Ridley (who plays Rey) and John Boyega (who plays Finn), are the two characters to have most updated the franchise towards modern expectations of gender and racial equality. But, where the sequel succeeds on the racial front it stumbles in

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The economic cost of climate action

By Benedetta Di Costanzo

The 12th December 2015 is now regarded as a day that our planet will never forget. On that day, the “historic” Paris Agreement, as the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defined it, was reached: the first universal and legally binding agreement on climate change, adopted by 195 countries. It is an inevitably ambitious agreement,

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That time the College sent me to the other side of the world

By Chris Powers

For eight days in December, 10 students from the College of Europe (of which 3 from Natolin) were able to sample Japan as part of an initiative by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the MIRAI programme, which welcomed around 150 students from all across Europe and Central Asia. The trip to Japan was really

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Media challenges in the Baltic States

By Adam Reichardt

The Eastern enlargement in 2004 included for the first time a number of former Soviet states joining the European Union, among them Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The three Baltic states had regained their independence in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union and then turned towards western Europe to finally become a member

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Schengen, un coupable idéal?

By Adam Reichardt

In his recent blog article Schengen, un coupable idéal? Prof. Henry Labayle, visiting professor at the College of Europe – Natolin Campus, described the reasons why the previously-praised Schengen agreements are now being blamed for the response to the migration crisis over the past few months as well as to the recent terrorist attacks in

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Five years after the Arab Spring: a wilted flower in a destroyed field

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is neither progressive nor feminist

The economic cost of climate action

That time the College sent me to the other side of the world

Media challenges in the Baltic States

Schengen, un coupable idéal?

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Five years after the Arab Spring: a wilted flower in a destroyed field

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is neither progressive nor feminist

The economic cost of climate action

That time the College sent me to the other side of the world

Media challenges in the Baltic States

Schengen, un coupable idéal?

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