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Modern pirates use GPS in Somalia

In front | ANALYSIS
Gulf of Aden coastline (Photo: Hoorob/ Flickr)

Recent attacks on Spanish and French ships highlight the insecurity of maritime activities. The EU is confronted by a challenge which puts its capacity to create a policy protecting common security into question

by Mélanie Bulan & Joaquín Salido Marcos // 05/05/08

FEATURE
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Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?

But it hadn’t banked on such a large opposition from two thirds of the population and such an angry reaction from its future neighbours. A return to the cold war?

by Agnès Baritou // 30/04/08

FEATURE
Generation-P in Europe also counts 'Generazione Mille Euro' in Italie (photo:www.generazione1000.com)

Exploiting unpaid interns: rites of passage?

Associations like Generation Precarity or Fairwork expose an exploited flexible labour force with intermittent incomes and no job security

by Farah Boucherak // 28/04/08

PANORAMA

Greece, Portugal and Romania: save your species!

Is Europe acting fast enough to halt irreversible biodiversity loss?

by Eloise Horsfield // 18/04/08

ANALYSIS

Albania: 'NATO yes, PM Berisha no!'

Whilst Tirana celebrated an invitation to join the NATO alliance alongside Croatia on 2 April, the opposition mobilised itself to denounce the government

by Hans-Ulrich Lempert // 08/04/08

FEATURE

Batman, goats and internet in Cavas do Monte, Portugal

The living conditions in the north Portuguese mountaintops of S. Pedro do Sul have hardly changed in hundreds of years. Bit by bit, however, the uniting, modernising world is moving in, and the children are moving out

by Laura Daub // 26/03/08

FEATURE
'EUMIK': The writing is on the wall in Mitrovica (Photo: morbin/ Flickr)

Young Europeans on love, brothels and Beach Boys in Kosovo

Despite the lack of vegetables and electricity, or precisely because of it, young Swedes, Dutch and French Europeans enjoy working in this remote, recently independent, spot of Europe

by Pim de Kuijer // 18/03/08

FEATURE

The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo

Contemporary art is just one bright face of the Kosovo prism, from which the works of the likes of 29-year-old visual artist Artan Balaj refract

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 18/03/08

NEWS
Geert Wilders (Photo: ANS Online/ Flickr)

An Oscar for Geert Wilders please

'Fitna' the film means evil, European parliament has a fake birthday and ousted gay Iranians - it's your latest news from Brussels

by Pim de Kuijer // 14/03/08

VOX POP

Kosovo independence: your reactions

On 17 February, the state declared independence from Serbia, amidst a split EU outlook. Kosovar, Serb and Russian youth sound out their reactions on the day

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 20/02/08

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