This edition of the Green European Journal sets out to identify and apprehend some of the forces of integration and disintegration at work in Europe today.
Articles in this edition
Behind the sensational headlines and the obfuscating rhetoric, how can we explain the stark polarisation that seems to be taking hold, across Europe, between those who defend the idea of Europe and its institutions, and those who feel these do not enhance but rather hinder and threaten their aspirations?
Read moreThe European Union is far from perfect – from a Green perspective – yet at times when it is threatened, we must rally to its defence as an idea and as a project.
Read moreThe architecture of the European Union institutions is flawed.
Read moreA circulation of misinformation can have far-reaching implications, and can influence not only the European Union’s relations with Russia and its neighbours, but also its own internal process of integration.
Read moreCan democracy be the project that leads to further European integration?
Read moreIn a rational world, security threats might boost European integration, given their cross-border nature. Today’s Europe, however, is different.
Read moreThe serious challenges confronting the European Union have placed the future course of its integration in doubt. Against this backdrop, young people have a central role to play.
Read moreVictory seems to be in sight for the movement against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Read moreTo what extent are the values we ascribe to Europe today rooted in religion?
Read moreThe imbalance and lack of solidarity between Member States is such that the project is running out of political energy, bringing adverse consequences for us all.
Read moreIn order to regain momentum, a vision of European integration infused with bold notions of European sovereignty should be put forward.
Read moreToday, the debate surrounding the Eurozone focuses essentially on two questions: whether it would be preferable or even unavoidable to break up the euro area, at least in its current form, and whether it would be possible to fulfill the necessary political and economic conditions for a more resilient, prosperous and integrated EMU.
Read moreThere is a kind of nationalism in Europe that is not only progressive, but has the potential to reinforce European integration.
Read moreIs there an optimal amount of countries, after which an organisation becomes dysfunctional?
Read moreThe Left must put the question of capitalism squarely on the table.
Read moreSince the outset, the ‘Franco-German engine’ has been the driving force in the European construction process.
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