Transatlantic connections have increased but the laws haven’t kept pace.
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End of Safe Harbour agreement isn’t the end of the world, and it might just mean a far better replacement is on its way.
Staple food.
Solmule
New EU rules on GM attempt to unblock logjam that has hung over the technology in the region for most of this century. To work, anti-GM member states and Big Biotech will need to cooperate.
Leaving the club?
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We should be debating the options for Brexit to better understand what is at stake.
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Governments are just as much to blame when it comes to letting car manufacturers get away with dodging regulation requirements, as the companies themselves.
Dale Farm Traveller site, Essex: bulldozed by Basildon council in 2011.
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Thanks to new government planning rules, Gypsy and Traveller communities could lose their legal ethnic status if they stop travelling.
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UUK’s ‘Universities for Europe’ campaign is a welcome contribution to a debate that is inevitably partial.
George H W Bush greets troops in Saudi Arabia.
Republicans in the US don’t have a monopoly on anti-immigrant rants. It’s bad in Europe, too.
Another chance? Tsipras seeks a new mandate.
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An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
Reuters/Yannis Behrakis
Greece’s bailout may have allayed fears of a eurozone exit, but euroscepticism remains high in Greece’s election build up.
Universities have put their boxing gloves on.
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The decision by the university membership body to campaign for Britain staying in the EU has implications for academics.
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Nobody is doing a great job, but three countries say they have no part to play in the refugee crisis.
Refugees are escorted to especially chartered trains after they arrived at the main train station in Munich.
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How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
Jeremy Corbyn is an advocate of increasing Britain’s intake of Syrian refugees.
Reuters/Neil Hall
With strong views on NATO and the EU, the new leader of the opposition is bound to ruffle feathers abroad.
Cutting a lonely figure.
Reuters/Vincent Kessler
The European Commission president believes more integration and cooperation is the solution to Europe’s many problems. But it’s hard to see this happening.
Hear me now.
Reuters/Vincent Kessler
Junker reinforced his mandate to act as a guarantor of EU integration, preserve the unity of the EU and the Eurozone, and to take leadership in addressing the refugee crisis.
The lucky ones: bound for Germany.
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Much of the conventional wisdom among academics over the last decade or so has focused on the convergent trends in European government policies toward both migrants and asylum seekers. Spurred on by European…
An image by Nilufer Demir dominates news coverage.
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Powerful images – like the one of Aylan Kurdi that flooded the Internet last week – can spark political change.
Hackles raised at an anti-migrant protest in Brno, Czech Republic.
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The Czech police were condemned for writing numbers on refugees’ arms – but Central Europe’s problem with outsiders goes much deeper.
Germany is doing most of the heavy lifting.
Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
Europe has long struggled to share the burden fairly and now the situation is at breaking point.
Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader
The free movement of people among Schengen member states is a boon for business and the European economy.