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The urgency of responsible sharing and reform of the asylum system 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 28/03/2017
Is it time for the Common European Asylum System to be reformed?
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When you’re a country, size matters 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 24/03/2017
Recently, media and people all around the world have been paying a lot of attention to migration and asylum policies of countries such as Germany, France, Canada or the United States. Some decisions of leaders of big countries have sparked outrage, while others were met with enthusiasm. But the one thing they had in common was that people heard about them. Smaller countries, on the other hand, often manage to push through controversial legislation without gaining much attention. This is why this piece puts a spotlight on the migration legislation in Slovenia, a European country currently hosting 252 asylum seekers.
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Good practices on disability rights: no more stones on the road 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 21/03/2017
Nowadays, according to the assessment of the European Disability Forum, about 80 million Europeans have a disability. One in four Europeans has a family member with a disability. Six Europeans out of ten know someone, who has a disability. Thus, the protection of vulnerable people requires urgent attention.
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Putting local food back into our cities 0
- Environment and Energy, Op-ed
- 17/03/2017
Food has never been under the policy remit of cities, primarily since it’s cultivated outside of our cities in peripheral and rural areas. Nevertheless, in recent years’ food has emerged as a topic of discussion within urban agendas.
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School-aged refugees: Are they a burden or a social responsibility?0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 13/03/2017
Human Rights Watch: A child we interviewed in 2015 said, “when I picture my future, I see nothing.
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European Elections and Migration: what we’ve learnt – and what to expect 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 10/03/2017
Dealing with the legacy of 2016, 2017 started off as a very uncertain year. Adding to this, four of the founding countries of the European Union will have to go through general, presidential and federal elections. As the optimistic predictions on Brexit and the US went terribly wrong, it is now time to consider what could happen if populism won.
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The need for a new security discourse 0
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 08/03/2017
European countries are having a hard time addressing all the security threats they face. Radicalization is one particular challenge, where a dominant community within society feels menaced by a smaller group. The problem nowadays is that European counterterrorism measures ignore societal needs, enabling the rise of racist policies. Trump’s so called Muslim ban is only one recent example.
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The peculiar question of gender equality and economy in Japan 0
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 04/03/2017
To get Japan out of its gloomy economic situation that now has lasted for the past 20 years, the country Prime minister devised a new strategy which consists of three pillars: monetary, fiscal and structural reforms. The monetary and fiscal actions of the “Abenomics” received a lot of attention from the international media. On the other hand, the structural reforms went completely unnoticed, although these may be the real factors needed to save Japan’s economy, as ignoring them helped the country’s economic fall from grace.
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Global financial governance: does the EU have a say?0
- Financial Policy and International Markets, Op-ed
- 28/02/2017
As the EU tries to create a single financial market, engaging in a global financial governance which is no longer preoccupied with the development of new standards and institutions but rather concentrates on the implementation of existing rules, can the EU still play a major role in this particular scene?
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