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18.09.2013
European Right to Freedom ActDemocracy

We should recognise that the national context and legitimacy is here to stay for some time. We might overcome it one day, but not tomorrow. We therefore need to develop a new approach that allows for combining the national more legitimately and more democratically with the European.

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10.09.2013
Flanders: a Region in Search of ItselfDemocracy

In 2010 the Flemish nationalists became the largest party in the Belgian Federal Parliament for the first time. Does the rise in electoral support for the N-VA herald the end of the state of Belgium or can the country continue to adapt?

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24.07.2013
Greens and Science: Why the Green Movement Is Not Anti-ScienceSociety, Media and Culture

The Green Movement owes a great deal to science, but is sometimes portrayed as anti-science.

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24.07.2013
The EU-US Free Trade Agreement: Bad Prospects for the Global SouthFinance and Economy

The Global South could be a potential loser in the negotiations over an EU-US Free Trade Agreement. The fairer alternative is to return to the post-war idea of multilateral negotiations that involve civil society and provide a fair deal for all.

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05.07.2013
What Does the EU Bring to Croatia’s Environment?Environment

Though Croatia is now a full Member State of the European Union, it faces a tough path to full compliance with the Union’s environmental legislation. However, the potential benefits to Croatia are clear – from safer water to more green jobs.

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05.07.2013
Croatian Ghosts from the Past in the EUPolitics

In everyday life, nationalism and intolerance are creeping back into Croatian society. We’re at risk of destroying the memory of anti-fascist hero Stjepan Filipović, but membership of the EU may be an opportunity to reverse this.

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04.07.2013
Can We Avoid a 500PPM Scenario?Environment

Is the fight against climate change a declarative one, or a genuine one?

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03.07.2013
India’s Megalomaniac Nuclear Power DreamsClimate and Energy

While Germany phases out its atomic energy production and the expansion of nuclear power in Europe is mostly slowed down or even put to a halt, the Indian government plans to increase the country´s nuclear power production capacity by a factor of 100.

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02.07.2013
Turning Bitter into Sweet – an Opportunity for the Greens?Politics

The ambivalence within Croatia and the EU regarding Croatia’s recent accession is the result of often contradictory discourses.

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01.07.2013
More federalism, More Autonomy, More Connections!Democracy

Belgian federalism and European federalism have reached the end of an epoch. Both have to be reinvented. To achieve this we must start from our shared interests and recognise the interdependence that links us. Environmentalists who have always been passionate federalists have to be the motors of this reinvention.

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