In the wake of the green wave, we see renewed calls for a “system change”. But what exactly does that mean? Does anyone have any…
Author: Dominik Kirchdorfer
Dominik is a European writer and entrepreneur of Austrian and Polish descent. His passion is storytelling and he wants to do everything in his power to give the story of Europe a happy ending.
He is currently the President of the EFF - European Future Forum, Editor In-Chief of Euro Babble and Managing Editor of Italics Magazine. Dominik recently published his first SciFi novel, The Intrepid Explorer: First Flight under the nome de plume Nik Kirkham. Twitter: @NikKirkham
Calls grow for a ‘Europe of Citizens’ as MEPs test Commissioner-designates in parliamentary hearings this week
Civil society organisations and groups campaigning for a Europe of citizens are increasingly setting the agenda at Commissioner-designate hearings at the European Parliament this week….
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe… The next Austrian government
The Austrian elections are over and Sebastian Kurz’ conservative ÖVP has come out on top. The night ended in bitter tears for the socialist SPÖ,…
The conservatism of progressive taxation
Nobody likes taxes. Okay, that’s not true. There are students on every university campus, who live in social housing and have never paid taxes in…
Europe’s struggle with democracy
‘The European Union is too far removed from its citizens,’ is a sentence uttered all too often. Europhiles have passionately defended the democratic nature of…
Brexit reaches video games
Every year the Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3 for short) presents the newest innovations in gaming. Only this year was rather disappointing. Not only did…
European elections: Liberal-Green Surge at 90s level turnout
The European elections are over and the results are a spectacular surprise. The final results will be published in a few days, but while parties…
European Elections: Retune the EU and let’s stand still!
Following our previous analysis of the Social Democrats, we are now taking a look at the ECR group, (European Conservatives and Reformists). In case you…
European Elections: Frans Timmermans’ social system – would it work?
The political European election campaigns are in full swing and each Spitzenkandidat is trying their best to generate as much media attention as possible in…
Using social media for positive change
Ex-Facebook employee Alexander Mäkelä recently launched a web booklet entitled Social Media for Change – Ideas, Tools and Best Practices for Civic Engagement and Elections…