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22.08.2012
European Leaders and Their Dangerous GamePolitics

Polish commentator Cezary Michalski likens Germany to a nuclear power plant – providing energy to Europe when working well, but a destructive force when it fails.

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21.08.2012
Sweden: Greens Are Not the Twins of the Old LeftPolitics

The debate on what distinguishes the Green movement from the left has reignited in Sweden.

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13.08.2012
Free Science: the Commons and KnowledgePost-Growth

How to approach intellectual goods, information and knowledge in the 21st century?

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11.08.2012
Why Not Rescue the Banks Instead of Rescuing Spain?Finance and Economy

Rather than focus on Spain’s overall public debt, is it smarter to look at a bailout tailored just for its banks? A leading German and Spanish Green politicians discuss the reality of this prospect.

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03.08.2012
The Smaller Market: a New Common Market for Green Restructuring and ExperienceGreen Transition

Along with the single currency, the creation of the single market has been considered the EU’s greatest success.

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13.07.2012
Goodbye Germany?Politics

The seemingly never ending Eurozone crisis has evolved into a start choice – does Europe take a leap forward into closer political union, or face a break-up of the single currency?

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06.07.2012
Romania as Another Ailing European Democracy?Politics

Romania’s transition from Communist-era dictatorship to western democracy has not been an easy one.

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06.07.2012
The Maple Spring in QuebecWelfare and Social Issues

What is the similarity to the Arab Spring? A complete social uprising, which has since mobilised Quebec’s social-democratic and predominantly French speaking society, with an unemployment rate below 7%.

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26.06.2012
Rio+20: Let’s Move Away from the Declaration and on to ActionFinance and Economy

This piece from Ecolo looks at what the conference produces, and asks what is next for the Green movement. This analysis of the Rio+20 conference was written by Jean-Marc Nollet, Evelyne Huytebroeck and Arnaud Pinxteren, who are elected representatives for the Belgian French-speaking Green Party Ecolo.

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25.06.2012
Manifesto for Rebuilding Europe from the Bottom UpSociety, Media and Culture

In this proposal, initiated by Ulrick Bech and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a group of pro-Europeans argue for a form of active citizenship to promote European democracy and resolve the political crisis that continues to grip the European project.

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