Stanislas Demeestere, Author at Euro Babble

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European elections: Can the same old EPP really open a new chapter for Europe?

With the prophetic words of “opening a new chapter for Europe”, the EPP builds its manifesto around four catchphrases. Whether political soundness and coherence follow…

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COPing with climate change: are the streets the new boardrooms?

On the first official day of the COP 24 in Katowice, Twitter buzzes every few hours with news: Trump and Xi Jinping negotiating trade, the…

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Everywhere we look, we keep hearing that the wealthiest 1% keeps getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Do…

A European Dream and "The Elite" – Euro Babble

Everywhere we look, we keep hearing that the wealthiest 1% keeps getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. While this is not exactly true and certainly not in Europe, as I demonstrated in my latest book, 'Fear of the Future', it is certainly true that 'the elite' are a small minority. This i

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Did you ever stop and think where all the ethnic diversity is in EU affairs? Is Brussels too white? Our…

Why is Brussels so white? – Euro Babble

The EU promotes equality for all and shuns discrimination - and this is something to be celebrated. But why are EU institutions still so white?

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How effective will the new Austrian government be at fighting #climatechange?

Austria, the Nordic country in the heart of Europe – Euro Babble

Austria is ready for the green transition. But at what cost?

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Thanks to the dominant narrative of the media, our perception of what African migration to Europe really looks like is…

African Migration to Europe: Facts vs. Fiction – Euro Babble

With thanks both to the dominant narrative of the media, and our failure to identify African migrants unless they are in certain stereotypical situations, Europe’s perception of what African migration looks like today is rather skewed.

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How better to start into the new decade than to look back at the last 30 years of Czech independence?

Czechia - Still Velvet 30 Years Later? – Euro Babble

In November 2019, thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Czechs commemorated the events of the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia of 1989. Three-hundred-thousand protestors gathered at the Letna Plain in Prague to remind themselves of the revolutionary times thirty years

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