Europe

Two Milestones Put Romani Cultural Discourse in the Hands of Roma Themselves By Cayetano Fernandez For the Roma movement in Europe, 2015 was a pivotal year. It was the year Roma intellectuals and activists moved beyond “fixes” to employment, housing,…

Last July Varoufakis stepped down as Tsipras’s Finance Minister in order to avoid becoming an impediment to an agreement between Greece and Europe, or so he said at the time, but really because he didn’t agree with the deal, as…

At the end of the day, we are all refugees looking to return to a mythical and original lost paradise.  If we are persistent, there will be no walls or barriers or tricks to stop us in our path.  …

Euro-Survey will take place from the 1st to the 17th of October and will be promoted by EuroMarches2015 This citizens’ initiative consists of doing an opinion survey of European citizens during EuroMarches2015[1], in all European languages, about the 5 central…

As EU-US trade talks flounder, France doesn’t rule out ‘an outright termination of negotiations’ by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams While public opposition to the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)—the massive proposed “trade” deal between the European…

CALL FOR A BREAK FROM AUSTERITY EUROPE Five prominent Europeans have called for a break with austerity Europe and adoption of a new “Plan A” and “Plan B.” The five areJean-Luc Mélenchon, Member of the European Parliament, co-founder of the…

Testimony of a summer in Milan spent with refugees that reach the city every day. In these long and extremely hot summer months of 2015, Barbara and I remained in Milan. Like so many Italians these days, we didn’t have…

The same facts, a different narrative The belt of civil wars festering on Europe’s borders is not accidental but has been intentionally built since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The unilateral dismantling of the bi polar world which prevailed…

Dispatches: Stranded in Budapest’s Train Station A Microcosm of the EU’s Failed Asylum Policies By Lydia Gall – Greenpeace “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will…

Human Wrongs Watch By Roberto Savio* Rome, 5 December 2014 – The fact that in a referendum Switzerland has taken a path that goes in the opposite direction from that of Europe is an unusual fact which calls for reflection,…