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Academic titles in Germany and the curse of plagiarism
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Click here for excellent piece by Mr Timothy Garton-Ash. ...
Towards a European Party System?
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Dimitri Almeida Amidst what is arguably the most severe crisis the European Union had to face in recent memory, we tend to overlook crucial dynamics in the transformation of the European polity. The sovereign debt crisis and the rising scepticism o...
ECI – the first step towards trans-European e-democracy
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Number of View: 11The European agenda has been overshadowed in recent years by the impact of the current crisis and by the need to take unprecedented measures to overcome it, many of which have often been poorly received by citizens. The solution...
Bringing Europe’s Youth on Board
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When asked to support a more integrated EU in the coming years, young Europeans will ask themselves two questions: ‘What has Europe done for me?’ and ‘What is the EU really for?’ “More Europe” has become the rallying cry of … Contin...
German rapper U-Cee on life in Prague
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The musician with North African origins refuses to be boxed into a certain music style, so we’ll mark him down as a ‘reggae-soul-hip-hop’ kind. We meet up in Prague where the thirtysomething’s latest album 'International Call' was released in...
EU-Call for Proposals LLP 2013: Bank Guarantees
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At the DARE GA 2011 several members indicated they have difficulties in receiving tha bank guarantees required for the applications under the Lifelong Learning Call for Proposals.The DARe board asked the European Commission in a letter for advise how...
EU: MFF 2014-2020 current state of affairs
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The European Parliaments CULT Committee discussed the amendments made to MEP Doris Pack report suggested by EP colleagues for the new ERASMUS FOR ALL program.The CULT Commitee suggests a new name for the program: "YES Europe" which stands for Youth,...
November 26th, event on Historiana in the EP
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For its 20 year anniversary and the launch of www.Historiana.eu, the online alternative to the idea of a common European history textbook, EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Educators, invites you to a celebratory event at the Europea...
Ukrainians Rally in Protest Over Vote-Rigging
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Online reports that have been coming in from disputed districts over the past week offer a good insight into the Ukrainian election routine and also help explain the frustration of ordinary voters.
75 to Tomas Venclova
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Tomas Venclova, a Lithuanian poet, scholar and author, has reached 75 years. During the cold war he emigrated to the United States, where he resides until now and where he [...]...
Online Learning Center for Migration and Human Rights
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Online Learning Center for Migration and Human RightsThe Learning Center, newly founded by Network Migration in Europe, provides online services for school teachers and for extra-curricular teaching to explore different approaches to dealing with ref...
EDC/HRE Action Days 2012
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DARE organizes the EDC/HRE Action DAYS 2012Submit your activities by 15 November 2012 via the online-form and lobby for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education on the European Level! CLICK HERE for the online-form...
Lifelong Learning Week 2012
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"The aim of Lifelong Learning Week, organised for the first time in 2011 by EUCIS-LLL, is to raise awareness on the social dimension of education and training, as the important factor to reach the headline targets of Europe 2020 in this field. With t...
An academicus/literati roundup: Citizenship after orientalism at Open Democracy, Good practices for university open-access policies, Open Courses and more…
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Citizenship after orientalism – an introduction from open Democracy News Analysis – by Engin Isin Introducing this week’s guest theme. Engin Isin holds a Chair in Citizenship and is Professor of Politics in Politics and Internationa...
Tim Farron Is Not David Laws, but…
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David Laws, the Minister of State for Schools and the Cabinet Office, was billed to speak at a bangers-and-mash supper at the Clarendon Hotel in Blackheath this evening and Liberal Democrats from the three boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley...
"Citizens have the rights to..." Social welfare defending EU Citizens' lack of interest in their political sytem
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It seems as if there is not much sense in discussing the topic of Citizens' duties in times of duties. To whom ever I talk I just here: Citizens have the rights to,... Yes, citizens have the right. "Citizens have," as one person stated today during a...
Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up
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The apprenticeship scheme was thrown into question, following the damaging report by the government’s own department which found that it is being used as a way of getting cheap labour. Vincent Moss exposed the report and yesterday which stated: “...
“The right side of history”
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--> I’ve come across this phrase twice in the last few days (here and here) and it’s a wonderful instance of a hidden normativity. First of all, it assumes that history has a purposiveness. I thought that this very Hegelian concept...
An idea for a sustainable approach against projects like CleanIT or INDECT
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The Twittersphere has been humming with #CleanIT these days, after a few recent articles commented on current documents which the project and the German government released and the project group prepared for its Vienna meeting. CleanIT is a project t...
“Stop the Presses” | Youropa’s Press Review #14
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In this week’s press review, Youropa looks at Europe’s role in the US presidential election, at Russian bloggers and on the (lack of) EU spending on culture. The best articles on Europe selected by Youropa’s editors. ...
Ink Duel: Bulgarian Artists vs Egyptian Artist in London
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Studio 75, a London-based “100% independent, not part of any school, trend, fashion or directive” artist space is hosting ‘The Orientophobia Sessions' this weekend. In the program of the Out Of The Deep East, Bulgarian artists Krum and...
Google’s Doodle for November 2nd : Odysseas Elytis
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Odysseas Elytis, one of Greece’s most prominent poets, the Literature Nobel Prize laureate of 1979 is today’s doodle in Google’s ... Continue reading...
Education's Return on Investment
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OECD Education at a Glance 2012 ReportIn this era of austerity, it must be remembered that expenditures by the state are not unilaterally expenses. Funds dispensed by the state are also investments, which yield a measurable r...
When Actions are Priceless
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As president of the Ivanov School of Leaders Alumni Association I worked on a project titled “Dreaming in color” which was one of our first activities several months after the formation of the organization. The idea was to find a …...
Google Art Project intergrates more Greek Museums
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Google announced earlier this week the second phase of Google Art Project ; the programme aims to offer the users ... Continue reading...
Germany: Satire Magazine Calls for Complimentary Ph.D.s
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After a series of scandals surrounding the academic achievements of German politicians who cheated on their dissertations, the online satire magazine“Der Postillon” is now calling for a complimentary Ph.D. [de] for all politicans: This wa...
Sorry, we’re no Longer Shocked
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Artists whose interests received a boost with the €12 million renovation of a museum and art center are advancing an unintelligible protest against cuts to subsidies of their craft which no-one deems worth paying for of their own volition.Behold, t...
Parce que je suis une fille
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Les Nations Unies ont déclaré le 11 octobre 2012 la première Journée internationale des filles. Le but de cette journée mondiale est de sensibiliser les citoyens à l’impact de la scolarité des filles dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et d...
The LUX Prize 2012 – Shun Li and The Poet
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The last finalist of the 2012 LUX Prize and which I’m reviewing is Shun Li and The Poet, from first time feature director Andrea Segre. The film examines issues such as cultural alienation, xenophobia, exploitation, splintered families and the...
The EU and Europe that I want.
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It is noticeable that this blog is so called "pro-EU" or "pro-European." Does this mean that I personally support everything that comes from the current effort for European integration? Definitely not. I do not believe that the current...
The LUX Prize 2012 – Just the Wind
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The next finalist film in the LUX Prize this year is Benedek Fliegauf’s Just the Wind (Csak a szél). This is the chilling story of a Romany community living amongst an atmosphere of fear and paranoia. A recent spate of murders has left...
Hungary’s Electoral Law May Complicate Bid for Governing Party’s Rival
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Hungary's government is bombarding its own controversial election bill with amendments, one of which targets the disqualification of its most likely challenger at the next elections in 2014.
How European Mainstream Political Parties Become Not Old-Fashioned
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Florian Hartleb Introduction Democracy in Europe is now a multilevel governance system with a sometimes opaque interdependence of policies, institutions and actors such as entrepreneurs, media and lobbyists. At the same time, society is changing, a...
Upphovsrätt: EU-direktivet om anonyma verk
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I förrgår avslutades ett lagstiftningsprojekt på EU-nivå när direktivet om anonyma verk, som rör upphovsrätten och därmed den inre marknaden, publicerades officiellt: EUROPAPARLAMENTETS OCH RÅDETS DIREKTIV 2012/28/EU av den 25 oktober 201...
Music and politics in Western Ukraine
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A man with a rather large bushy grey moustache plonked three glasses of thin brackish coffee down on the fold-away table of our railway carriage and demanded 12 hryvnia (around 1 euro). It wasn't so much the clink and crash of the glasses as they hit...
Putin's Russia: back in the USSR | Editorial
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The president's crackdown will do nothing to tackle the source of his problems: a corrupt and unreformable system of governmentThere is a glaring paradox about the crackdown Vladimir Putin has launched since being elected president for a third term.
