"Turkey on trial as suspects claim state collusion in writer's killing...
Police: Hayal organizer of Dink murder
Yasin Hayal, suspected of inciting the murder of prominent Turkish - Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, established ‘a group based on friendship' to act against Dink, the Security General Directorate....
Independent: Turkey on trial as suspects claim state collusion in writer's killing
Social issues move to top of EU Presidency agenda
Ten years after the European Employment Strategy was launched, the Portuguese EU Presidency has declared jobs and social issues as its top priorities, as ministers gather for an informal summit in Guimarães.
DOSSIER: How should Europe tackle terrorism? | 04/07/2007
In the aftermath of the failed terrorist attacks in Great Britain, the media discuss the appropriate and effective means for fighting terrorism. While the British remain calm, others call for stricter controls and increased surveillance.
EU to outlaw internet bomb making sites Placing instructions on bomb making on the web will be a criminal offence with ISPs facing charges for not blocking pages...
Turkey's Evolving Anti-Terrorism Measures on the Iraqi Border Global Terrorism Analysis
World authors on climate change
Coinciding with the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper asked writers from around the world for their perspectives. Read how global warming has effected lives from Bombay to the high Alps, from The Netherlands to Nigeria and beyond. We present stories by Hans Maarten van den Brink, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Romesh Gunesekera, Kiran Nagarkar, Leo Tuor and more...
'France does not look at itself'
The latest right-wing French government has appointed three top politicans with immigrant backgrounds. But the nation’s political personnel still accounts less and less for the products of immigration, says Karim Zéribi, former advisor to French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement...
BBC Unpolished?
How Poland is not winning friends and influencing Europe
COMMENT: Why east Europeans continue to mention the war For many the second world war did not end until the overthrow of communism in 1989, writes Stefan Wagstyl
Cultural Relativism or Eurocentrism? A Historical Perspective
This paper explores how international identities have been historically treated which allows us to see how cultural relativity has grown to be part of the treatment of foreign, as well as one's own, society. Whether referring to present concerns over human rights and environmentalism or historical concerns over imperial expansion, the distribution of disease, or rights to 'citizenship,' different nations have used cultural comparisons to distinguish the progressive society from the barbaric, the civilised from the uncivilised, the modern from the 'traditional' society. These categories, like all classification systems, have always had problematic boundaries. But through travel and the uses of Enlightenment 'sciences of man' to inspect foreign frontiers, strides were made to map the margins of the historical and scientific classification of populations--'primitive' or 'enlightened,' within a 'European' or 'extra-European' domain. This paper looks at eighteenth-century theories of European identity......
L'IDEE REPUBLICAINE EN EUROPE
Alors que le projet de constitution européenne a été rejeté par près de 55 % des Français, on est fondé à s’interroger sur les raisons de ce refus. L’une des explications ne serait-elle pas la crainte de voir le projet républicain français, en dépit de sa vocation universelle, se dissoudre dans un ensemble qui lui serait irrémédiablement étranger, voire hostile ? Il est classique, en effet, d’opposer l’exception française aux conceptions sociétales du reste de l’Europe et du monde. L’idée…
