The Olympic Games are absurd
The Football Euro Cup is over. And just as quickly as it flew by, the Olympic Games in Tokyo have…
Europe Still Has a Hard Time Talking about Racism and its Colonial Past
Photo courtesy of the European Commission. As we have seen, the US-born Black Lives Matter movement has had a ripple…
What do the Burqa and GDPR have in common? Our Right to Avoid Observation
Two years back, we discussed how Denmark controversially followed France’s example of banning face coverings in public places, hitting niqab-wearing…
African Migration to Europe: Facts vs. Fiction
Featured image, courtesy of JRC, European Commission When most of us in Europe think of African migrants – though it…
The EU’s Eastern Partnership needs a new approach
Nowhere is the Union’s neighbourhood policy more mature than in the East, yet expectations are high and successes manageable. Political…
A market with moral sentiments
In the wake of the green wave, we see renewed calls for a “system change”. But what exactly does that…
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…
Alexis Tsipras and Syriza are responsible for their own downfall
After the surprise victory for Alexis Tsipras and the Syriza party in January 2015, many were expecting them to deliver…
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…
A Brexiter’s case for Europe
The Brexit campaign made numerous promises for what leaving the EU would mean. Looking at the arguments of the Leave…