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	Genocide! The Armenian Chapter by Newropeans-Magazine If we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is i
	Thinking about Europe without the euro? by Newropeans-Magazine When Iceland went bankrupt, this was positive news for Europe. European politicians told their citizens that this example shows how essential European integration really is. This would never happen in one of the EU member st
	Dutch collapse: Sign of the global geopolitical dislocation by Newropeans-Magazine Conversations with Franck Biancheri, president Newropeans and Reinder Rustema, dutch member of Newropeans board Both internationnaly and domestically, the socio-political fabric of past decades is unravelling.

	We Europeans are all 'PIIGS' ...and Anglo-Saxons are 'Usuk' by Newropeans-Magazine In the past few months, a “new” acronym has been increasingly blossoming in the Anglo-Saxon press: “PIIGS”
	The fake democracy of the citizens' initiative by Newropeans-Magazine Soon, the real European direct democracy will start. The treaty of Lisbon includes the option of a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI): European citizens can send a proposal to the European Commission to make a bill on a certain issue. Th
	Can the Dutch parliament prevent problems with snow? by Newropeans-Magazine Last week, there was heavy snow in the Netherlands, the first time in several years. Travelling by public transport was never so difficult: the Dutch Railways (NS) advised travellers to stay home because NS could not guarantee that travellers w
	Stop interactive policy making! by Newropeans-Magazine Why do I always have this strange feeling when people talk about interactive policy making? To me, it always seems very inefficient to talk with citizens about every plan that is made, to organise evenings where these plans are discussed, and t
	Todo por el Imperio, nada fuera del Imperio... by Newropeans-Magazine Los actos forzados nunca son buenos ni convenientes. Y en los asuntos de la política, aún menos. A José María Aznar, siendo presidente del Gobierno, le “forzaron”, le “aconsejaron” o le “indicaron
	Surely this is not our own Abu Ghraib? by Newropeans-Magazine Having just returned home from a consultancy trip, I came across a veritable plethora of articles in our broadsheets about claims that British soldiers in Basra - in the southern part of Iraq, not far from Kuwait - had recreated the torture condit
	Bargaining across borders - doing garment industry's dirty laundry by Newropeans-Magazine Dictionary defines ‘shame’ as a painful emotion caused by a strong sense of guilt and embarrassment. One way to evoke this emotion is to read the results of the recent Norwegian study concerning the wages that the Western garm
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