Monthly Archives: April 2012

Hospitality vs. Anger

“Merkel?” asked the Greek owner of the fuel station, somewhere near the Turkish border, when he looked at our number plate this morning. Though he was smiling, visiting Greece as a German is a thrilling experience: Austerity measures hit the … Continue reading

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Youth Unemployment in Spain, Italy, and Greece

Read our op-ed with The European (for our German readers) and find out why the European growth initiative is not so straightforward after all.

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Raised Catholic, Raised European

“There is nobody, just nobody who would open his or her door to us on a Sunday night. Especially not at 4am.” Sadly, Jan is right and Tommy (our car) has to host us for another night, this time parked … Continue reading

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“Media, judges, and the people failed to put an end to the Berlusconi era”

Giacomo Rojas Elgueta is a young Italian scholar who specialises in economic analysis of legal systems. We seized the opportunity and spoke to him about ancient Roman law, simplifying European law, and voting via smartphones.

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Region, Nation or Europe?

Read about it in The European!

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Hablais European?

Madrid welcomed us with a hideous hostel and overpriced tapas. Instead of enjoying a heavy Spanish red wine at a nice restaurant and uploading our latest pictures via free Wifi access, we were hunted down by ominous figures in the … Continue reading

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Discussions in Lisbon “Let us cope with our mismanagement”

Happy to have found a spot for our car and a hostel for ourselves in central Lisbon, we hasten through the streets in between 17th century houses to meet Rodrigo, our Portuguese contact. After a ten hour drive from southern … Continue reading

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Euroskop @ The European #4

Read about Portugal and solidarity within Europe here.

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The regions = the spices

Europe has been unifying for the last decades. But also, calls for autonomy or independence have increased rather than seized: In 2006, the Catalonian people approved in a referendum the Statute of Autonomy which allows Catalonia to be called a … Continue reading

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It is good, but also bad

We left Paris somewhat puzzled. Unlike in the previous countries there was no clear message to be drawn from our conversations, no distinct topic in our discussions. We had talked about limits of Europe in the Netherlands, the identity question … Continue reading

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