Ever since Alexander Lukashenka rigged the results of the Belarusian elections in 2020, his country has been mired in turmoil. The state has doggedly persecuted activists and protestors and increasingly committed grotesque Human Rights abuses. These actions have led to harsh condemnation from Western powers and some action, chiefly imposing sanctions against leading figures in Minsk. But to what degree have powers such as the European Union (EU) confronted Lukashenka’s regime?
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Laïcité, the well-loved term referring to secularism in France, has been under excruciating pressure after the recent string of attacks in France, but President Macron’s rhetoric and actions cannot be justified solely on the basis of secularism as Macron’s rhetoric challenges the established relationship between the “West” and the “East.”
Although the European Union (EU) is now based “on the principles of democracy and the rule of law,” some scholars consider that democracy was not acknowledged at the beginning of the integration. This has caused the disconnection between European citizens and the EU, and led to questions on the democratic nature of the integration. Thereby, according to EUR-Lex, the phrase “democratic deficit of the EU” is now being used to indicate that European “institutions and their decision-making procedures (…) seem inaccessible to the ordinary citizen due to their complexity.”
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Interview conducted by Johanna Pieper & Paola Gosio Ashanti Collavini is an Euroculture alumni part of the cohort 2017-2019. She spent her first and second semester respectively at the University of Udine, in Italy, her home country, and at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. After her MA, she immediately started working for Euroculture … Continue reading Behind the scenes: meet the Euroculture Staff – Ashanti Collavini
In this article, Kumush Suyunova wrote about the persecutions undergone by Crimean Tatars under Stalin and asks whether this ethnic cleansing should be called a genocide.
Interview conducted by Johanna Pieper & Paola Gosio Maite Sagasti Maite Sagasti holds a BA in History and Cultural Heritage and an MA in Spanish Heritage Management. She is currently the Euroculture course-coordinator at the University of Deusto, where she started working in 2006 and became since then a point of reference for all the … Continue reading Behind the scenes: meet the Euroculture Staff – Maite Sagasti
In this article, Kardelen Besime Tepe who was born and raised in Turkey gives her insights on Turkey's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention and what this means for her and her female counterparts.
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