Politics and economy as individual actors
This, however, hasn’t always been easy to understand by Latin American peoples. As with when the region was under military dictatorships, logic seemed to be overthrown in times of dire…
Articles, Briefings and Essays
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Pakhtunkhwa
Partial abandonment, sometimes akin to simple marginalisation but bearing characteristics that suggest statelessness is on the agenda, has threatened Chitralis and other ethnic groups in the country’s North West Frontier…
Good work, but could be better… (the role of the European Ombudsman)
It was badly needed – few people have more than the haziest idea of the scope of the Ombudsman’s mandate, or how to go about using the excellent service which…
Freedom with Responsibility: The European Liberal Manifesto
When delegates from 55 member parties from across Europe gathered in Stockholm last October to debate and pass the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) manifesto for this June’s…
Doomed youth?
Like most Arab states, Lebanon has an expanding young population for whom the future looks bleak. The United Nations Development Programme estimates that 26% of Lebanese aged 15-24 are unemployed…
Higlights from Latin America in 2008
Economic Highlights The region’s growth streak has come to a halt. Latin American countries experienced solid growth between 2003 and 2008. The economic crisis that broke out in the U.S.…
Fresh doubts on Croatian membership
There has been heightened concern over the crime wave in Croatia, including a series of murders with possible political connections. And Slovenia has raised the temperature in a territorial dispute…
Latin America and the initiatives to perpetuate power
Based on a government vision that he ambiguously defines as "Bolivarian Revolution", Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, implemented a contemporary version of perpetuation of power in Latin America. Advancing…
Time for a gesture to Ukraine
It is true that EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs went out of his way to say last week, when he met Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, that EU-Ukrainian relations would…