Commentary

EU Blue Card - a reasonable idea but needs further evaluation

The American Green Card which allows a foreigner to live and work in the US is known by most of us. However, not everyone knows that the European Union has a similar permit, called the Blue Card. The Blue Card, which was first announced in late 2007, allows highly skilled workers from third (...)

Sunday 3 May 2015

A United World for a United Europe

In 1968, the US dollar convertibility to gold was limited to central banks alone, and was soon permanently archived by Nixon in 1971 together with the “Bretton Woods system” on which the former had been established. In 1968, the US dollar convertibility to gold was limited to central banks (...)

Thursday 23 April 2015

Better but still not there

The International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8th of March each year. The roots of the celebration are in the feminist movements of the early 20th century who demanded inter alia better working conditions and suffrage. The original goals of the movement have widely been achieved but the day (...)

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Europe’s Road to Democracy

German Member of the European Parliament Jo Leinen argues that although the EU Commission President is no longer chosen in backroom deals, more remains to be done before achieving a fully democratic Europe. Despite some negative predictions and heavy attacks of some heads of state and (...)

Saturday 28 February 2015

No more excuses for Italy’s winning parties: structural reforms shall be completed with stronger majorities with the new electoral reform

In the last few months, Italy seems to have undergone very profound political changes. At least in appearance, because the choices of Matteo Renzi, who was appointed Prime Minister in early 2013 and known by his adversaries as “il rottamatore”, represent actually nothing more than a façade. In (...)

Saturday 14 February 2015

War returns

Does history repeat itself? Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Libya, and the Ukraine: “war returns”. This was the title of a prophetic article published by Carlo Rosselli in 1933 just after Hitler’s rise to power. In the first half of the last century, the dusk of the British maritime hegemony across the globe (...)

Sunday 25 January 2015

Je suis Charlie : solidarity and unity

After the worst terrorist attack in France in more than half a Century, people across France, Europe and the world gathered together to express their solidarity. Emotion was even greater as this terrorist attack targeted one of France’s most precious and universally shared values: freedom of (...)

Saturday 10 January 2015

No Union without Nations

« Construire l’Europe, c’est déconstruire les nations ». Guillaume Bucherer n’est pas de cet avis et répond par le présent article à un article de Ferghane Azihari, opposant l’Europe fédérale au fait national. One must salute the courage of Mr. Ferghane Azihari, who in a November 8th article in Le (...)

Saturday 3 January 2015

Europe: A Denationalization Project For the Best

Nationhood is incompatible with the European project. The most conservative federalists who deny this fact reveal a touching naïveté. In this sense, the radical nationalists are right to panic about the end of nations; indeed, as said Ernest Renan, the father of French nationalism, nations are (...)

Tuesday 30 December 2014

Unemployment in the Globalization Age

The 100th anniversary of WWI offers the opportunity to compare the current crisis with those occurred during the past century. The two World Wars, the great depression, fascism and nazism are aspects of the crisis of the nation-state. The 100th anniversary of WWI offers the opportunity to (...)

Saturday 5 July 2014

Looking for European Chutzpah

“The only natural resource we discovered is the human potential. Israel is an example where the people enriched the land more than the land enriched the people.” – President Shimon Peres, from his EU parliament speech In their book “Start-up Nation: The story of Israel’s economic miracle”, authors (...)

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Ηow do Greeks vote?

Choosing political parties and candidates in today’s gloomy Greek reality and in the actual economic and social circumstances is undoubtedly one of the most responsible and at the same time difficult decisions a Greek voter is expected to make. This choice becomes even harder, having in mind (...)

Tuesday 15 April 2014
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