Members of the TNF team recount big events from Europe from the past week, and point attention to news that may have passed notice. What did we miss? Comment on our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/thenewfederalist.eu !
Sunday 1 April 2018
The World Economic Forum in Davos: its snow-covered landscapes, its leaders and influential businessmen… and the “Macedonian dispute”. Indeed, the Forum held from 23 to 26 January was the occasion for the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev to meet. Both (…)
Saturday 31 March 2018
One year and a half ago, I was writing an article about the scandal which marked the European Union in summer 2016: José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, was hired by the American multinational finance company Goldman Sachs. Since then, it is unfortunately obvious (…)
Thursday 29 March 2018
Het woord ‘post-truth’ is tegenwoordig de onbetwiste hoofdrolspeler van zowel journalistiek als het politieke debat, en daarmee is het een van de grootste problemen van onze tijd geworden. Maar wat is het? Laten we dieper naar dit probleem kijken met behulp van de analyse van Roberto Saviano.
On 6 March 2018, the Council of the EU adopted 17 new projects for what is called Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in the field of European defence strategy – a historic moment for the EU. The aim of these projects is to deepen the cooperation agreed by 25 EU Member States in December 2017. The pooling of common forces and military cooperation between the EU Member States is more necessary than ever in view of the geopolitical situation.
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Diletta Alese writes that the creation of a Fortress Europe is problematic from a democratic perspective.
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Members of the TNF team recount big events from Europe from the past week, and point attention to news that may have passed notice. What did we miss? Comment on our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/thenewfederalist.eu ! Norway to ban full-face veils According to a new bill announced on (…)
Monday 26 March 2018
In dit deel van onze serie ‘Mijn taal, mijn thuis’, leren we over Oekraïense, een taal gesproken door 45 miljoen mensen, en een waar veel mensen maar weinig over weten.
Monday 19 March 2018
Members of the TNF team recount big events from Europe from the past week, and point attention to news that may have passed notice. What did we miss? Comment on our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/thenewfederalist.eu ! Italian far-right leader: EU is destructive Matteo Salvini, (…)
The great Spanish writer Valle Inclan once observed that “things are not as we see them but as we remember them”. History is not merely a thing of the past- an antiquarian concern for specialists- but a living breathing aspect of our present. Our collective memory of the past impacts our (…)
Friday 16 March 2018
The Historical transformation of how we evaluate History Upon hearing the word Medieval, the most salient image that comes to mind in the context of modern liberal democracy, is the sceptre of divine rule by which laws are set, morals established and truth revealed. It is almost a knee-jerk (…)
Thursday 15 March 2018
Het rasdenken is terug van nooit weggeweest op politiek rechts: de toedichting van bepaalde eigenschappen aan de hand van etniciteit verplaatst zich gestaag van neonazistische kleine groepjes uit naar de Tweede Kamer. De ruk naar rechts is in heel Europa merkbaar, en het heeft in de VS zelfs de eerste president voortgebracht sinds een erg lange tijd.
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