Wildfires are raging in the Mediterranean. What can we learn?
Italy, Portugal and Spain have all gone up in flames in recent weeks, highlighting the need to rethink how Mediterranean countries protect people and save ecosystems.
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Austerity has wounded public health in EU bailout countries – Greece worst of all
From hospital waiting lists to suicide rates, here's how cuts affected health in Ireland and Greece.
Has the EU really solved its refugee crisis?
Less than two years after Europe's migrant crisis began, EU officials have said that the situation is under control. It's not
Can Congress pressure the White House on human rights?
Congress is trying to curb the president's ties to human rights abusers, harkening back to landmark legislation of the 1970s.
Is Indonesia’s ‘pious democracy’ safe from Islamic extremism?
An expert on Islam and democracy examines the threat to the world's largest Muslim majority country.
Brexit and weak government: a drama lesson from the Greek economy
A warning from Athens about facing political headwinds with a government barely worth the name.
How the spectre of Yugoslavia looms over EU’s handling of the refugee crisis
Everyone has forgotten there were almost as many asylum seekers in Europe in the early 1990s as today.
There’s not enough evidence to back the claim that humans originated in Europe
The theory that humankind originated in Europe is an old one. It was abandoned in 1924 when the first Australopithecus was discovered in South Africa.
The road to the great regression
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here's what history tells us about today.
How corruption in Greek football makes the game’s future uncertain
Predictable results and unresolved corruption scandals are a serious issue for the future of the Greek game.
The IMF is at its weakest just as the world needs it most
Where now for one of the great emblems of post-World War II global co-operation?
In today’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, echoes of Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’
As the United States bars its gates to newcomers, the 'Aeneid' – a story of war, exile, racial hatred and irrational fears – is particularly resonant.
Cyprus talks keep failing – maybe it’s time to try something a little different
Another 'last chance' has been missed. But while talks disintegrate, islanders are just getting on with peace in practice.
Living through the Greek crisis: an anthropologist reports from Thessaly
Before the financial crisis struck, you could breathe the overwhelming air of prosperity on the bustling streets of Trikala.
‘Big, beautiful’ walls don’t stop migrants in the US or Europe
What do border walls cost? And do they work?
If the EU wants to be the bastion of liberal democracy, it too must stop demonising refugees and migrants
Europe is also building walls.
The Greek asylum crisis: moving beyond the blame game to a real solution
The 60,000 people currently stuck in Greece will probably have to stay there. The EU should help them integrate.
Greeks are overworked and exhausted from the debt crisis
After eight torturous years of crisis, Greeks are working long and hard with very little to show for it.
The left’s response to Trump and alt-right must be international
The people who voted for the new American president may not be as hard for the Left to reach as it may appear.
Q+A: the Cyprus reunification talks
The island's leaders are meeting in Geneva to discuss the prospect of reunification. Here's what is on the negotiating table.
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