An ever closer (student) Union

By Alessandro Valera  Demonstrations, occupations and other forms of protest have sprung up around the continent in the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ireland, each contesting their government’s attempts to further slash education budgets and increase tuition…

Helen Flautre on the Tunisian crisis

Article by: Alexandra Solom Translated by: Deirdre Brophy Helène Flautre: MEP and member of the Greens – European Free Alliance, is a specialist on the issue of the defence of human rights. She gave her opinion on the Tunisian crisis…

Development as Freedom? The Bhopal case

By: Valeria Venturini Nowadays seems to be fair enough that words such as freedom, democracy, development, have become bare containers full of rhetoric with no meaning. Too often we hear examples of good or bad governance based more on economical concepts instead…