Commentary

Historical Memory and Our Common Future

The great Spanish writer Valle Inclan once observed that “things are not as we see them but as we remember them”. History is not merely a thing of the past- an antiquarian concern for specialists- but a living breathing aspect of our present. Our collective memory of the past impacts our (...)

Friday 16 March 2018

History: a pillar made of Memories or Dreams?

The Historical transformation of how we evaluate History Upon hearing the word Medieval, the most salient image that comes to mind in the context of modern liberal democracy, is the sceptre of divine rule by which laws are set, morals established and truth revealed. It is almost a knee-jerk (...)

Thursday 15 March 2018

European Media for European Democracy

At first glance, the 2019 European elections will not see the arrival of a pan-European constituency. This would have been of good help, but luckily, there is another way to revive European democracy: the essential issue of communication. It is trendy to talk about the democratic deficit of (...)

Wednesday 14 March 2018

Is Romania the new ’Sick man’ of the European Union?

Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) anamnesis At first sight, in the European Union, there seems to be a contagious democratic enfeeblement, a relapse of corruption to which Romania is not immune either. The dawn of 2007 ‒ Romania saw its bid to European Union accession coming to (...)

Tuesday 13 March 2018

Tea and Sympathy Won’t Cut It

Berlin, February 2018. The city’s sparse streets are bitterly cold; the continent is in the grip of a vicious icy snap. People have looted their wardrobes for every ounce of warmth imaginable, wrapping so many scarves around any exposed skin that it becomes impossible to recognise faces. On a (...)

Friday 9 March 2018

Volt - a European party is entering the political arena

Volt Europa is a pan-European, progressive movement that wants to change how politics is done in Europe. Last weekend, the German section was founded as a political party in Hamburg. Volt parties will be founded in other countries in the coming months. The short-term goal is to create the first (...)

Thursday 8 March 2018

Corsica, the independence crisis that will never happen

Weeks after the Catalan crisis, people of Corsica are still thinking of independence. Nationalist politicians largely won the regional elections last December and their demands were recently disregarded by Emmanuel Macron, the French President. Is this the beginning of a new - yet smaller - (...)

Saturday 3 March 2018

Interview with Gregor Gysi: Be more rebellious

The President of the European Left interviewed by treffpunkteuropa.de

Sunday 18 February 2018

Bridging East and West – An Erasmus love story

You know those people that groan as if suddenly overcome with pain whenever the words “Valentine’s Day” are uttered? I used to be one of them. How about the hearts that popped out in commercials or in wishes and declarations, filling the internet with gooey, sticky, lovey-dovey feelings? (...)

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Spitzenkandidaten: for European democracy

Last week, the European edition of POLITICO published a piece have been long-standing supporters of the system (our section in Germany even has a [successful campaign->https://www.jef.de/spitzenkandidaten on the matter). I will try here to briefly explain why, drawing also from JEF’s resolutions (...)

Monday 5 February 2018

“Illegal love”: the criminalization of homosexual acts as violation of rationality in law

LGBT rights are often and rightly defended from a human rights perspective. However, other arguments can be called to defend these rights. Our author Giovanni Perrotta advocates for the “rational-legal” argument to defend and protect LGBT rights. Homophobic criminal law is not only scandalous (...)

Thursday 25 January 2018

What! Because we are poor, shall we be corrupt?

“What! Because we are poor, shall we be vicious?” John Webster, English dramatist of the 17th century Ever since the times of old, poverty has been coupled with corruption, just as bad hygiene is linked to the spreading of disease. At the same time, those below a certain level of material wealth (...)

Tuesday 9 January 2018
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