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21.01.2018
Car Wars: The Future of Europe’s Car IndustryClimate and Energy

The automotive industry is in store for drastic change in the next ten years as the car is practically being reinvented and Germany and China compete to develop electric car technology.

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18.01.2018
Baby Steps on the Road to a Basic IncomeSociety, Media and Culture

Various Dutch cities have started basic income experiments. But restrictions from central government are making some veer from the founding principle. How will it play out?

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11.01.2018
‘What we have achieved has to become the benchmark’ – Interview with Reinhard BütikoferPolitics

Why the Jamaica coalitions talks with Merkel failed and where things will go from here.

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10.01.2018
Refugees and the city: time to re-define roles and responsibilities?Migration

Cities should be trusted to take the lead on the integration of newcomers.

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09.01.2018
‘Now we have to see where viable bridges can be built’ – Interview with Reinhard BütikoferPolitics

Last November, we spoke with German MEP Reinhard Bütikofer on the Jamaica coalition talks.

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05.01.2018
Our Sustainability is Someone Else’s Disaster: Cities and the EnvironmentEnvironment

Are smart techno-managerial solutions the perfect alibi for resource extraction and inequality in our cities? We talked to author and academic Maria Kaika about the way that green technology so-called solutions are sometimes anything but, and can displace real action.

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04.01.2018
Fighting Talk: Competing Visions of European Defence CooperationGeopolitics

What are the prospects for deeper European integration on defence? We spoke to two experts to get their take.

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30.12.2017
Technology is No Guarantee of EqualityWelfare and Social Issues

Algorithms: supposedly neutral but in fact liable to perpetuate various forms of discrimination, including against women and people of colour. How do they exert such power, and what are the stakes?

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