Photo: Dutch PM Mark Rutte © Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/AP Last month, the European Council finally managed, to agree on Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), outlining the EU’s…
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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 effect all the way over…
UK Toppling of Slave Owner Statue Sparks Anti-Racist Uprising Across Europe
Photo courtesy of PA Media. In case you haven’t heard, a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston was torn down this week during a…
Citizens & Experts Talk Future of Europe: How has Social Equality been Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic?
To mark Europe Day – otherwise known as Schuman Day – the European Future Forum (EFF) joined up with Citizens Takeover Europe for a panel…
“We Shall Fight Them From Our Houses…” The Pandemic’s Worrying Wartime Parallels
The struggle against the coronavirus over the past few months has consistently been defined as a “war” in Europe. Beyond Donald Trump’s insistence on qualifying…
Is It Time To Re-Evaluate How We Do Democracy?
In the current era of political distrust and ideological extremism, perhaps the only element of modern politics we can largely agree upon is its democratic…
Brexit happened. So now what?
After four long years of Leave-Remain battle – from the referendum campaign, the voting day, and all of the chaos since then – from the…
Brexit chaos continues with possibility of a UK General Election looming
After the divisive Boris Johnson taking over as UK Prime Minister and winning a long-contested battle for the Tory leadership race, the possibility of a…
On the Original “Brexit Day” Civil Society Meets in the European Parliament to Discuss Europe’s Future
The 29th March 2019 was engraved in many of our minds for 2 years as the day that the UK finally breaks away from its…
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 campaign, it may now be…