Borders
A deadly crush on the EU’s southern border should be a turning point, yet authorities are doubling down on their hard-line approach.
Read moreSolidarity with the Ukrainian people in the face of foreign invasion must guide the response.
Read moreWhat do the European responses to the Afghanistan crisis mean for people trying to flee a desperate situation?
Read moreIn The New Border Wars, Klaus Dodds predicts that floods will continue to ravage our continents, with devastating consequences for both people and ecosystems.
Read moreIn recent years, surveillance technologies have increasingly been deployed to monitor, control, and curtail the movement of people. The pandemic is accelerating this trend.
Read moreBruno Latour emphasises the need for a politics of the living moving from this European-invented space to the tangible space that he calls “dwelling place”.
Read moreMass migration is the 21st century’s revolution – leading, in turn, to a counter-revolution which threatens the core idea of the European Union. The refugee crisis has resulted in the reinforcement of stereotypes that Eastern and Western Europe already held about each other.
Read moreThe Green Observatory provides a round-up of perspectives on a current political issue from the Green European Journal’s partners around Europe. This edition focuses its lens on the so-called ‘refugee crisis’: how is this crisis perceived and does the perception at all correlate to facts? Are the new EU proposals responding to the situation and are EU member states willing to shoulder each other?
Read moreSince the outset, the ‘Franco-German engine’ has been the driving force in the European construction process.
Read moreWe find ourselves living in a society where increasingly our actions and our right to freedom of cross-border movements – or lack thereof – are being constantly monitored, both physically and digitally. But as we enter the surveillance age, forms of digital civil disobedience are fighting to go beyond these new borders and to protect our scrutinised values and movements, and our right to privacy.
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