Politicisation of Aesthetics / Aestheticisation of politics

 In the 1930s, one of the core Frankfurt School members Walter Benjamin, introduced an idea of “politisation of aesthetics”, the notion of the impossibility to separate art and beauty from ideology. He also contemplated on “aestheticisation of politics”, a situation …

Castes: the Stagiaires

If you tell people that the Eurobubble is in many ways similar to places like Wall Street, La Defense, Geneva or DC, they would probably nod in a very convinced way. If you tell them that it is almost as exotic as …

James Bond in the eu Bubble

“I stopped meeting him for lunch because all he did was ask questions and he never said anything about himself,” a diplomat on the EU Council’s working group for post-Soviet countries once told about his friend from the Russian embassy. …

Ukraine Conflict Demonstrates Need for Close U.S.-EU Cooperation

The current conflict in Ukraine has shown the importance of close cooperation between the United States and the European Union to defend the system of international law. We support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people to seek their destiny with …

Sound, fury and nothing significant

“Good lord … Is that it?” That was my immediate reaction to reading David Cameron’s Telegraph article. Barely a few days after Carl Bildt admitted that he had no idea what it was that London wanted from Europe, we were …

Les élections européennes vues de France

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EU Presidential Debates 2014

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EUphoria: Campaigns, eggs and election fever!

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EUphoria: Selfies and election campaigns

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Gossip in the bubble

Gergely Polner the head of EU affairs at British Banking association, was amused by UKIP’s campaign poster. While Nigel Farage, the leader of UK’s Independence Party expressed his enthusiasm for student journalism.   However, will he be just as enthusiastic …

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