LGBTI rights and EU Enlargement

LGBTI rights and EU Enlargement Backsliding is all too common across Europe, and the EU’s unreliable allyship risks the lives and freedoms of Western Balkan LGBTI activists.   Source: Wikimedia/Mickey Mystique   This week, the International Lesbian,...

A Baptism of Fire: Croatia’s Council Presidency

Negotiating Brexit, the Budget and the Balkans simultaneously is an unprecedented baptism of fire for Croatia. Source: Pixabay   Only six and half years after joining the EU, on the 1st of January 2020, Croatia took over the rotating presidency of the Council of...

Accession is a two-way street

Accession is a two-way street What behaviourist B. F. Skinner can teach us about the EU’s Accession Procedures with Albania I can thank psychological theory for shaping my dog into an obedient animal: if he pees in the house, he gets a smack on the nose; if he...

To be or not to be (a globalist)

To be or not to be (a globalist) Davos: Rhetoric or substance? In the Swiss Alps, the world’s elite gathers to discuss the future of the global economy, the challenges that the planet is facing and to find shared solutions through dialogue. Just before his arrival, US...

Compromise is not a shame

Compromise is not a shame Parliamentary debate on Catalonia The debate broke the so-called “silence” of the EU on the subject, but in the end it most agreed a solution must be found within the framework of the Spanish law through dialogue and compromise. Whatever this...

Mexican standoff

Mexican standoff Election nears and Italian parties are still struggling to reform the electoral law     A few months ago, the Italian political landscape seemed ready for a redo of its electoral process. It was all for naught as almost immediately the...