Before the European Parliament elections in 2019, Transeuropa Caravans, a pro-European integration activist group, set out to explore EU countries …
Southern Cities: A Democratic Renaissance
As a group of young female activists travels across Europe — part of the Transeuropa Caravans project — they carry …
The Balkans: Stuck Between Migrations
Two seventeen-year-old boys, originally from Iran, stand motionless in front of a police vehicle in the wasteland near the Croatian …
Three lessons for active citizens around Europe
In Europe and the United States, the far-right continues to gain political ground. And yet — despite increasingly frequent episodes …
If not us, who will be on the proposing seat?
It was expected that media would be seen writing about the Lehman Brothers last weekend. Anniversaries always come as a …
Seeing the light in dark times
*Impressions from the Campus of European Alternatives 2018 “Why is it so dark in here,” whispers the person next to …
What I didn’t write about Zhanaozen
In 2011, a seven-month-long strike in a Kazakh oil town came to tragic end. Six months after I reported on the Zhanaozen massacre, I returned to a city where silence had won.