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European Elections 2014: Why so serious?
In the year of the 100th anniversary of World War I– an event which divided Europe into two blocks and devastated countless cities and villages – European citizens are summoned to vote in elections for...
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Serbia at the polls: A look at the country’s choices and perspectives
On March 16th 2014, snap elections were held in Serbia. Progressive Party leader Aleksandar Vucic had called the elections just two months before, in a move many believe was meant to allow him (who is...
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Philip VI? Or Republic?
On the morning of June 19th, 2014, a new king came to power in Spain: Philip VI, formerly known as the Prince of Asturias. Two weeks earlier, on June 2nd, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had...
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After the hysteria: What next after the European elections?
To outsiders who don’t have a clue about what is going on inside the European Union, it has become clear as day that Europe is in the middle of a crisis. While in most corners of the world the European...
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How Internet Activism and Street Art Can Change Iran
In late May, an Iranian court sentenced eight people to 123 years in prison for administrating Facebook pages that the judiciary claims spread anti-government propaganda and insulted the country’s...
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Boris Nemtsov: The sordid story of a murdered Russian dissident
Russia’s former Deputy Prime Minister turned opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down in Moscow with four shots to the back on Friday February 27. He was in sight of the Kremlin and the...
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Greece, what now?
In 1986, we started talking about the common market, later known as the single market. In 1999, we started talking about the common currency, later single currency too. The fact that the Eurozone did...
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What is municipalism and why is it gaining presence in Spain?
Leer en Español The two major Spanish parties since the Transition lost nearly 3 million votes in the last municipal elections in May 2015. The country saw these results as evidence proving that the...
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Why do some countries have low levels of corruption?
Leer aquí en Castellano If we take corruption to be one of the main barriers impeding economic development and redistribution of wealth, we may start by asking ourselves how some countries like Norway,...
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The Polish drift: from Europeanization to Autocracy
Leer aquí en Castellano 4 June 1989. On the defining day for European history, Poles vote in their first semi-free elections since World War II, clearing the path for the Eastern Bloc states to abolish...
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