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  • Stagnation – temporary or a new normal?

    Stagnation – temporary or a new normal?1

    The global financial and economic crisis has exposed a chasm between the theory and the practice of policy. Not only did the models underpinning policy choices not help anticipate the crisis, but now arguably they cannot even help fight it. Concerns are rising in the policymaking field that something structural – that models cannot capture – has changed. The stagnation afflicting the global economy could hence be a new normal, from which we can escape only by thinking out of the box of deceptively comfortable models.

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  • Sloboda i redistribucija bogatstva u savremenim društvima0

    Robin Hud je bio heroj engleskog naroda. Legenda kaže da je živeo kao odmetnik koji je „pljačkao bogate i svoj plen davao siromašnima.“ Pitanje redistribucije bogatstva je na određen način pitanje da li je Robin Hud bio heroj čije se ime mora izgovarati sa određenim poštovanjem ili odmetnik koji zbog svojih nezakonitih dela u tadašnjoj

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  • Should the EU care about civic and political opposition in Hungary?

    Should the EU care about civic and political opposition in Hungary?0

    It became almost impossible to pretend that Hungary is still a democracy. The autocratic tendencies of Orban’s regime are difficult to counteract without strengthening the existent civic and political opposition that is being intimidated by the police state.

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  • Should Sweden abandon its neutrality policy?

    Should Sweden abandon its neutrality policy?0

    Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 as well as Russian verbal threats and provocations towards NATO and non-NATO members, have put European leaders on edge. Talks of a new Cold War have revitalized the role of NATO and made Sweden question its neutrality. But is the threat from Russia towards Sweden substantial enough for Sweden to abandon its neutrality policy? No, and here is why.

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  • Selmayrgate: The European Commission’s House of Cards

    Selmayrgate: The European Commission’s House of Cards0

    The high-speed double promotion of Martin Selmayr from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s Head of Cabinet to secretary-general of the European Commission hardly went unnoticed. Selmayr succeeded the former secretary-general, Alexander Italianer, as the head of a workforce of 33,000 Commission civil servants in a matter of minutes. It wasn’t long before shots started getting fired from different directions.

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  • SDGs and Urban Biodiversity: Protecting rats and pigeons?

    SDGs and Urban Biodiversity: Protecting rats and pigeons?0

    The freshly released Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) please ecologists: Unlike the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs have ‘environment’ firmly enshrined in almost half of the 17 Goals. And yet Goal 15 on biodiversity loss makes us grin to a certain extent, as it seems to assume that nature can only be found on the countryside.

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