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Obama’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity: Sharing is caring or a new loophole for ubiquitous surveillance?0
- Digital Policy and Internet Governance, Op-ed
- 13/03/2015
“Everybody is online, and everybody is vulnerable” – claims the US President, Barack Obama, preaching for the necessity of strengthening the US cybersecurity at the White House’s Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection on February 13, 2015. However, there is always the reverse side of the coin, and, ironically, such a statement could have been equally used to describe the consequent situation with consumer privacy and omnibus surveillance.
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Greying of Europe: No color, please!1
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 11/03/2015
Is immigration a panacea for EU’s rapidly ageing population?
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Chile turns its back on neoliberalism with a policy of free higher education 5
- Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 11/02/2015
A couple of days ago a friend from my fellowship asked me “Is it true that Universities in Chile will be tuition-free and funded by corporate taxes?” Well, to be honest I have never put it in that way, but yes, the answer to my friend’s question is that it is true.
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An interview with Spyros Sofos on the Charlie Hebdo attacks and everything that follows 2
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Interview
- 22/01/2015
Spyros Sofos is a visiting lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the Lund University. He has previously been a Senior Research Fellow in International Politics at the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence of Kingston University, a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Portsmouth University. He is member of the advisory board of Transconflict, a conflict transformation NGO.
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Why the ’youth’ don’t need a guarantee 1
- Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 17/01/2015
The Youth Guarantee – along with the Youth Employment Initiative – are two of the most far-reaching and heavily funded EU schemes for employment – arguably of any active labour market policy.
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Lobbying law in Croatia: haven’t we waited long enough?0
- Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 15/01/2015
Imagine yourself working in a state of legal uncertainty, not really knowing what you are allowed to do and what not. Have you? Good. Now remember that there is a regulation in place that protects you as worker (by defining your profession) giving you certain rights, as there is at least one for almost every type of work. Well, there is, however, no regulation or a job description for lobbyists in any official document issued by the Croatian government. Professional lobbyists in Croatia have thus been working under dubious conditions for the last 20 years, some of them as business consultants and others as lawyers under the protection of Croatian labor law.
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