VICE News: Profiles Zoophilia is having a weird renaissance in Europe. Perhaps ironically, it kicked off when activists succeeded in banning the practice in places like Germany and Norway. In the background, something else emerged simultaneously: an animal-sex-tourism industry, which …
The lack of gender equality in EU decision-making means EU citizens are still suffering from a ‘double democratic deficit’
Joyce Marie Mushaben is Curators’ Professor of Comparative Politics & Gender Studies, and former Director of the Institute for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Gabriele Abels is Professor in the Department of Political Science at …
UK’s media coverage of Romania
Dora-Olivia Vicol is a DPhil student at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) at the University of Oxford. William Allen is a Research Officer at The Migration Observatory and the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) at the …
UN and EU add six people to Al Qaida sanctions list
The European Sanctions blog by Maya Lester, Brick Court Chambers & Michael O’Kane, Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP On 4 August 2014 the UN Security Council amended the entries for 2 people on the Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee’s list of persons, groups and entities to whom UN …
The EU is unlikely to embrace shale gas as an alternative to Russian gas imports
Corey Johnson is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The reliance of European states on gas imports from Russia has been one of the key underlying factors shaping the EU’s response to the Ukraine …
Lithuanian Diplomat brutally killed in Ukraine
With deep sorrow just learned about Lithuania’s honorary consul in Lugansk Mr Mykola Zelenec kidnapped &brutaly killed by terrorists there. — Linas Linkevicius (@LinkeviciusL) August 22, 2014
What lies behind Europe’s murky oil deals with Azerbaijan?
Molly Scott Cato, MEP for South West UK, Green Group Beyond hosting the Eurovision song contest or Formula One, few of us in Britain, I suspect, know much about Azerbaijan. In fact, you may find yourself asking whether it really …
Catalonia and Jordi Pujol
Alejandro Quiroga is a Reader of Spanish History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology in Newcastle University and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain). His research interests include Spanish history and politics, …
MEP #icebucketchallenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one’s head to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and encourage donations to research. Ingrid Van Engelshoven is a …
Questioning the merits of a referendum on British membership of the EU
John McCormick is Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Politics at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University. He has published extensively on the politics of the EU, his most recent book being Why Europe Matters: The Case for the European Union. His …