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...German intellectual Jurgen Habermas: the outcome is disgraceful because forcing the Greek government to agree to an economically questionable, predominantly symbolic privatisation fund cannot be understood as anything other than an act of punishment against a left-wing government. This centrist repression is ultimately less about economics and more about politics. It is a...

...German government has signalled that it’s ready to receive Syrian refugees stuck in Hungary. Thanks in no small part to Hungary’s behaviour, the current picture of the refugee crisis paints much of the EU as a hotbed of civil disruption and unmanageable borders, rather than a safe haven. This is yet another sign that the EU’s structures, designed originally for a...

...Germans found themselves in. Auschwitz and other concentration camps serve as reminders of the terrible events that followed. Similarly, we find that deprivation, unemployment, marginalisation and poverty fuel the imagination of some angry youth, who are motivated to join terror groups in an effort to claim back some form of agency. Corrupt governments entrench absolute...