Posts Tagged “EU”
“Merkel’s idea of unending budgetary discipline is anti-democratic”, argues professor Heikki Patomäki.
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- Tagged as: Angela Merkel • Attac • democracy • Economic crisis • EU • Fiscal Compact • fiscal discipline • Heikki Patomäki • law • parliament
The terrorist attack in Norway has been linked to far right ideologies. According to annual terrorism report by European police agency Europol there were no right-wing affiliated attacks in EU Countries in 2010. The same report (released in April 2011) tells us that “The professionalism of right-wing propaganda shows that right-wing extremist groups have the will [...]
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- Tagged as: Anders Behring Breivik • EU • Europol • fascism • ideology • islamism • national socialism • Norway • racism • Scandinavia • separatism • terrorism
Belgium, a country that has tried to form a new government without a result for a year now, and a home for the European Union and NATO. Finnish journalist Janne Toivonen is doing a half a year deal as a trainee in the European parliament’s web communications. At the same time he’s keeping personal blog [...]
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- Tagged as: Belgium • blog • EU • Europe • Janne Toivonen
The populist True Finns party lead by Timo Soini made history on Sunday by gaining 34 seats in the Finnish parliamentary election. Their vote rose by 15 percentage points compared with the last election in 2007. Their anti-bailout attitude has made Portugal somewhat nervous. Timo Soini received more votes than any other candidate. He has [...]
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- Tagged as: EU • Finland • Millwall FC • parliamentary election • populism • Roman Catholism • Timo Soini • True Finns
Check out this demented map depicting borderlines between the Netherlands (white) and Belgium (yellow) in a village of Baarle: Yes, it’s sad but true. Due to some complex medieval treaties, the borders of the village Baarle got skewed, to say the least. This division into two countries has some interesting ramifications. First of all, you [...]
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- Tagged as: Belgium • border • China Miéville • enclave • EU • exclave • map • The Netherlands
The populist True Finns party (Finnish: Perussuomalaiset) has stirred up debate with their manifesto for the upcoming Finnish parliamentary election in April. Especially True Finns’ take on culture and patriotanism has generated a strong opposition in social media. People have cited echoes of totalitarian regimes in the views of True Finns. “Cultural aid money granted [...]
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- Tagged as: art • EU • Finland • immigrants • manifesto • parliamentary election • poll • True Finns
