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Free trade might boost global economic growth, but it can have devastating effects on those who are not prepared for it. At the end of the day, a country needs [...]
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The Transatlantic Free-Trade Agreement (TAFTA) has a lot of American supporters as the USA expects to get the maximum profit from this deal. Former NATO secretary-general Javier Solana, [...]
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I want to say a big 'thank you' to all of you: English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgians, Germans, Americans, Swedes, Norwegians, Spaniards, Italians and all other nations for receiving [...]
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Macedonians know that hardly any foreigner will learn Macedonian. It is the language of only two million people so mastering it doesn't bring all that many benefits. Macedonians also know [...]
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Across Europe, governments in recent years have been increasingly hostile to immigration. British Prime Minister David Cameron was noted for a factually-questionable anti-immigration speech in March and German Chancellor [...]
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‘Where are you from?’ is the first question everyone asks you. It's a question I can't stand. Explaining my origins and identity takes a long time. Why? Well, I was [...]
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Most of the 5 million Palestinians are refugees. More than two million live in Western Europe and North America. They left Palestine and the refugee camps where they were denied [...]
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Although primarily an economic union forged with the aim of bringing long-lasting peace to a continent devastated by bloody wars, the European Union soon became an identity-centered construct. European citizenship [...]
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There’s an old Communist-era joke that neatly sums up the way most Romanians think about the relationship between the state and the individual. It hinges on a play on words [...]
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As the European crisis deepens, more and more Europeans are moving to Germany in the hope of a better future, the country portrayed and hyped in the media as Europe's [...]
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The term migration is usually associated with the movement of 25+ year old people driven by changes in the economy. Yet there is another type of migration which is as [...]
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In the village where I'm living you can meet people from different nations. Mostly Slovaks and Hungarians. A few Czechs, Serbs, some Vietnamese and Chinese. Sometimes Gypsies. And also someone [...]
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As ever more Hungarians decide to leave the country, Hungary faces a creeping social crisis. Who will replace those young talents who emigrate? And what effect will this have on [...]
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Riding the subway in Chicago recently, I saw an advertisement for the popular American television show “Two and a Half Men.” The punch line of the ad was “men will [...]
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Sasha and I were colleagues in university. He was a mediocre student. After graduation I didn't manage to find any work paying more than 30 euro a month. So I [...]
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After surviving a war and struggling through university while living away from home in Sarajevo without financial support, I thought I had finally made it to somewhat safer ground when [...]
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Look at any TV report about a business forum in Macedonia, a chamber of industry and commerce convention, a government session, a high level political meeting or a conference of [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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I have been mulling over how to frame my thoughts about the 'relationship trouble' between the people and the institutions that govern them. On FutureChallenges, Corina Murafa phrased [...]
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At the moment Bulgaria is governed by a caretaker government appointed by the president because the ruling party GERB resigned at the end of February after a series of country-wide [...]
