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Category Archives: eu
Provoking the Unprovocative: Reactions to Norway
As Italy goes into total shutdown for August, I have so much work at the day job that it’s literally made me sick for the past three weeks, but spending more than four hours on the phone with lawyers every … Continue reading
Posted in eu, human rights, immigration, the right in europe
Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, intolerance, racism, terrorism, the far right
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Duomo & Sarpi: stories behind images
In an effort to provide a little context for Magdi’s provocative posters, some reading from the archives in order to illuminate exactly what happened: The praying at piazza Duomo was connected to protests against the Gaza War and happened on … Continue reading
Posted in Bossi, Chinatown, Chinese, eu, freedom, human rights, il cav, immigration, italy, lega nord, maroni, roma, the italian right, the right in europe, Via Sarpi
Tagged Chinese, communists, duomo, fearmongering, hate, immigration, intolerance, magdi allam is a demagogue, muslims, red china, sarpi, tolerance
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The Chains are Broken, the Knives are Sharpened, the Glock is Photographed
Morning roundup: Interesting times in Tunisia. Is it the Arab’s world Gdansk or is that too much to hope for? We’ll see. But it’s something. I was heartened to see that Yglesias also excused himself from blogging extensively on Tunisia … Continue reading
Posted in america, electoral crisis, eu, il cav, immigration, italy, the italian right, tunisia
Tagged berlusconi, David Reisman, Glocks, Tunisia
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Serbia, the EU and Muslims in the Balkans
The Dutch held out but Europe, as usual, wants to have its way so after a threat to ram Serbia’s EU ‘assessment’ through by majority vote, the Dutch folded. However, there is a provision that every step of Serbia’s accession … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, bosnia, eu, human rights, serbia
Tagged bosnia, dutch, Europe, islam, serbia, srebrenica
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Soft on Mladic?
Thursday I was excited to see the photo of none other than Ratko Mladic on the cover of the IHT at the newsstand; “he’s been caught,” I thought, “just like Karadzic a few years ago.” Of course, he hasn’t, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, bosnia, eu, human rights, serbia
Tagged bosnia, EU, human rights, serbia, srebrenica
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Swiss Intolerance
If you thought Lega Nord images stereotyping Southern Italians and immigrants were bad, check out this new poster against the opening of Swiss borders to Italian (and other European – presumably Romanian) workers. Given that hordes of Milanese commute to … Continue reading
Posted in eu, human rights, immigration, lega nord, romania, the right in europe
Tagged immigration, racism, Switzerland
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Chermany
Bloomberg has a couple of excellent pieces out this week on what’s going on with the French and German economies. The story of how Germany lately managed to rally its growth and drive down its unemployment rate is of particular … Continue reading
European Stereotypes Maps
European stereotypes have been entrenched since at least the time of the first Grand Tour. But as organizational tools, maps have the power to change the way one perceives the world. Personally, I’ve found alternate maps fascinated by maps ever … Continue reading