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Democratic backsliding in the EU & the protection of reproductive rights

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 by Editor

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Gemma Spinks European leaders are voicing their outrage at the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade in the USA. Yet they are ignoring what is happening within their own Union, with some member states restricting access to abortion in recent years. Can the EU make up its mind when it…

Space needs a major cleanup, and this is what the EU can do about it

February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 by Editor

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by Adrian Glaz Space debris are becoming a major problem for satellites and spacecrafts and there is a lack of regulation to address this issue. The EU, as a responsible space power, should use its strength and form a coalition of the willing aimed at adopting regulation to decrease the…

Global Britain? Another non-sequitur in the collapsing Brexit Project

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023 by Admin

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Global influence is driven more by actions than by words. Simply declaring the UK open for business, while simultaneously cutting the country off from one of the world’s major trading blocs has severely undermined Britain’s soft power. Britain has always liked to think it has a special place in the…

What does ‘decolonisation’ mean? A critique of the discourse of decolonisation in the Political, Social and International Studies department at UEA

October 7, 2020October 8, 2020 by Admin

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Calls for ‘decolonisation’ has become stronger—or, to put it another way, “trendy” (Adebisi, 2019)—over the past few years within higher education in the UK and beyond, driven by student activism and campaigns such as ‘Rhodes Must Fall Oxford’ (ignited by the movement that began at the University of Cape Town,…