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  • New European border management – the human cost

    New European border management – the human cost0

    According to the speeches on the inauguration day of the newly re-shaped Frontex agency, it seems that the European Union has found the best antidote to the migration challenge so far: the novelty has been labelled a “milestone” in the history of border politics and solidarity between Member States. But Frontex’ new aims focus foremost on control and monitoring, whilst little is said about the asylum system and the refugees’ rights.

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  • Net neutrality: Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

    Net neutrality: Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?0

    “We need balance between users and service providers which ensures equal treatment and no discrimination”[1], insists one of the youngest European Parliament’s members, Eva Paunova, during the panel discussions on Net neutrality at the European Dialog on the Internet Governance (EuroDig 2015). This argument is not new for these debates that have been ongoing since the late 1990s[2]; however, something has changed.

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  • NATO Summit Outcome: Preventing a conflict or creating one?

    NATO Summit Outcome: Preventing a conflict or creating one?0

    The 2016 NATO Summit held in Warsaw has now ended. As expected, one of the main topics on the agenda was NATOs strategic response to Russia, which included debates about tactical troop positioning and other deterrence measures. What the summit – at least publicly – did not address, is the reason for the standoff between NATO and Russia and how NATO plans to prevent it from escalating.

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  • Multikulturalizam i (dez)integracija : Osvrt na evropske rasprave o dometima multikulturalnog građanstva0

    Uvodna skica problema Multikulturalizam se danas, barem prema mišljenju sve brojnijih kritičara, nalazi na samrtnoj postelji, bez mnogo prijatelja koji će ga oplakivati. Premda se, na prvi pogled, može učiniti da se raspoloženje javnosti „preko noći” okrenulo protiv nekadašnjeg miljenika savremene političke teorije i evropskih javnih politika, važno je naglasiti da kritika multikulturnih ideja i

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  • Multiculturalism and migration: the need to acknowledge cultural difference

    Multiculturalism and migration: the need to acknowledge cultural difference0

    Recently, the satirical French weekly paper Charlie Hebdo, a publication which became well-known internationally due to the horrific event of the mass shooting of its staff by two French gunmen of Algerian descent in January 2015, has once again hit the headlines around the world, this time not as a victim, but as the perpetrator of a different crime: intolerance towards the Muslim community in France.

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  • Modern slavery in the Irish fishing industry: a labor or migration question?

    Modern slavery in the Irish fishing industry: a labor or migration question?0

    Recently the British newspaper The Guardian has released an exclusive story on the plight of migrant workers in the fishing industry in Ireland, who were subjected to deplorable conditions of work aboard the country’s vessels. According to the daily’s investigation, African and Asian fishermen undergo different kinds of abuses onboard, such as suffering sleep deprivation, having no days off, working long and unpaid overtime, arbitrary retention of salaries and passports, constraint of freedom of movement, verbal and physical abuses, among others.

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