Photo: Elena Dalibot Throughout 2013 European Alternatives, its local groups and other partners have been developing the “Citizens Pact for European Democracy” in view of the 2014 European Parliament elections.The Citizens Pact should be understood as a pact between the…

image from http://imgur.com/a/gKAsu, under Creative commons licence The events of the first weekend of June in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities in Turkey, where thousands of people demonstrated against an authoritarian government and were met with disproportionate violence by the police,…

A report from one of our members in Istanbul  “How dare you tell me to dismiss this governor and that police chief? Know your place!” was Recep Tayyip Erdo?an answer to the demands made Tuesday morning by representatives of Taksim…

By Matt Ryan, Teaching Fellow in Politics & International Relations Blog originally published on politics|upside|down on May 14th 2013 Earlier this week I chaired a table discussion on bottom-up democracy at a world café event organised by European Alternatives at Europe House in London entitled ‘To…

It has been a couple of weeks since European citizens were shocked: in solidarity with the Bulgarians, people from various corners of Europe have occupied social media with wholehearted messages of support for transnational democracy. The reason behind this is…

Beyond the Battle of Alexandria,two years after the revolution, everything began again in Alexandria...

  Niccolo Milanese This text was originally published on Opendemocracy.net as part of their ‘Can Europe Make It?’ Series There is a tendency when speaking of ‘things European’ to speak almost exclusively in what we could call ‘vertical’ terms, as if the…