Society
Zionists, lawfare and the malady called revenge
What Can Blind Replication of U.S. Migration Policy Lead the European Union to?
Europe Is Not America
The European Parliament has endorsed an asylum reform that expands the use of the ‘safe third country’ concept and introduces the European Union’s common list of ‘safe countries of origin’.
Unsafe ‘Safe Countries’ Is the EU Dumping Its Migration Responsibility on Third Countries Again?
Migrant workers play an essential, if not primary, role in the agrifood sector
Migrant Workers and Farming Will They Get a Decent Living and Employment?
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism.
Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism
A permanent citizens’ forum as the fourth branch of governance in the European Union should give citizens greater influence over European politics. This is the argument put forward by the French-Greek-British professor of international relations Kalypso Nicolaidis.
Kalypso Nicolaidis: I Want a Woodstock for European Politics
To sustain democratic states, we must dismantle the autocracies that persist in our workplaces.
Democratise Firms to Save Democracy and the Planet
Under a European Union grant, Blanca Garcés, senior research fellow at the Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB), has prepared an extensive report about the living and working conditions of agricultural migrant workers in four European countries (Italy, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands) and one African country (Morocco).
Labor of Migrant Workers in Agriculture The Cases of Five Entirely Different Countries
Europe risks losing its long-term influence in the Sahel. That will happen if the Old World countries fail to understand the driving forces of rising anticolonialism and to adapt their approaches in Africa to the new realities.
Europe Risks Losing the Sahel Unless It Comes to Understand It (As Exemplified by Mali)
Several months before the milestone Pact on Migration and Asylum enters into force and lays a basis for a large-scale reform of the bloc’s migration policy, the European Commission published another curious document on the topic. This is the first European asylum and migration management strategy It defines the priorities that will guide the agreement's implementation over the next five years.
Innovation in Migration Management. The EU searches for a new paradigm. Will it Succeed?
In the run-up to the Dutch general elections in the autumn of 2025, the question of the modernization of migration and asylum policies was raised as a topical issue. Some parties advocated a fundamental reform of the asylum system, whereby parts of the asylum procedure would take place outside the European Union and refugees would only be able to come to Europe through resettlement.
On Externalization of Asylum, with Responsibility Offloaded to Third Countries
Mark Leonard, co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has published an article in which he examines the political phenomenon of the ‘new right’. Some believe them to be people nostalgic for the past, but the author concludes it is no longer the case.
The New Right: Anatomy of a Global Revolution Why the Right Forces are Becoming Increasingly Popular
There is a so-called circular migration programme (also known as collective migration) that has been used in Spain for many years. Officially it is called Gestión Colectiva de las contrataciones en Origen (Collective Management of Recruitment at Origin) or GECCO. The programme is often presented as an advanced one. The European Commission even took the “Spanish model” as the basis for drawing up the EU’s directive on seasonal workers.
Circular Migration in Spain Strengths and Weaknesses of the Spanish Migration Model
Experts have over the years produced countless policy briefs, reports and documents in efforts to influence policy-makers’ decisions about EU economic policy and governance. In a special category are the expert reports officially commissioned by EU institutional actors.
How Much Do Experts’ Ideas Matter for the European Union’s Political Agenda?