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There is a widespread concern across the European left that, as in the 1930s, a structural crisis of capitalism, far from automatically precipitating a radical shift in public opinion, risks being successfully exploited by the populist right. This would not only destroy what is left of the post-1945 social-democratic consensus but would redefine politics, in [...]
As the European Council meets in Brussels it is becoming clear that neither the still acute crisis of the Eurozone, nor Europe’s role in the world and relationship to other major international players is dominating the agenda. It is the French action against the Roma – and the EU Commission’s sharp criticism of it – that gets [...]
We could easily agree that the plight of the Roma, as accurately and alarmingly portrayed by George Soros on this Social Europe website, remains a human tragedy of unprecedented historical proportions. The Roma’s unremitting story of poverty, discrimination, (self-)marginalization, expulsion and persecution, notably in the barbaric Nazi-years, is a grim reminder of how people treat other people ‘because [...]
The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries. Now they face a form of discrimination unseen in Europe since World War II: group evictions and expulsions from several European democracies of men, women, and children on the grounds that they pose a threat to public order. Last week, France began to carry out plans [...]
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