Unwelcome Refugees

Since taking office in 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron has cultivated an image as a champion of the European Union at a time of shifting global power balances and resurgent populism. But his latest diplomatic efforts risk alienating Germany and other k…

For this months Design Store(y), we talked to James Turner, founder of Glimpse a collective for creative people who want to use their skills for good about their decision to open three pop-up stores with a difference. As of the first weekend in December, you …

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders on Sunday celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty, the union's legal cornerstone, amid calls to reform a bloc weakened over the past decade by economic and migration crises, risi…

The game Airmash was announced on Dec 10 2017 on Hacker News by a user named fivesigma. The announcement post became one of the most upvoted posts on Hacker News, and the game became very succesful in the year to come. But it would have a very rocky history.…

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Turkey on Thursday that it is alienating allies, and should not depend on support from the multinational alliance while also carrying out widely-condemned military operations against Kurds in northern Syria as a “fait a…

If this country ever goes under, it will be for needless, egregious hypocrisy.   Norman Mailer, “Harlots Ghost” Somewhere in Heaven, English author George Orwell is either laughing, crying, or looking on; mouth agape, speechless. The total corruption of the …

In 2015, at the start of the wave of migrants who hit European shores over the next few years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that migration and asylum would preoccupy Europe much, much more than the issue of Greece and the stability of the eurothe majo…

One morning in 1972, French author Jean Raspail was at his home on the Mediterranean coast when he had a vision of a million refugees clamoring to enter Europe. Armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving…

Mame Bineta Sane as Ada in Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story. Netflix In the new movie Atlantics, a group of young men set off on a boat for Spain from the coast of Senegal. They're fed up with their lives, and have made the fateful and fatal decision to sail…

The Greek government has announced a new migration policy at a special briefing. The plan envisages strengthening border protection by creating a single border control agency, accelerating asylum procedures, creating enclosed centres on islands that migrants …