Komende evenementen

Afghanistan: Drawing the lessons

by Herman Michiel 17 August 2021   We saw Taliban troops parade in the presidential palace in Kabul, from which President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. The largely US-educated professor and


Fighter jets as a European project

by Herman Michiel (*) 23 June 2021   You can’t be blamed if the acronym FCAS doesn’t mean anything to you. FCAS stands for ‘Future Combat Air System’, and is


The selective indignation of the EU

Herman Michiel, 27 May 2021 – European leaders are outraged by the manoeuvre with which Lukashenko handcuffed an opponent. But the selectivity of their indignation shows that they are not


Le miroir aux alouettes de “l’initiative citoyennen europĂ©enne”

par Herman Michiel 20 janvier 2021 Traduction par Hamel Puissant et François Houart (Gauche Anticapitaliste)  de l’article U zei: Europees burgerinitiatief?   Le principe d’initiative citoyenne europĂ©enne, lancĂ©e en 2012,


Das europÀische Kurzarbeitergeld ist ein Geschenk an die Konzerne

Klaus DrĂ€ger und Herman Michiel –  27 November 2020 – Mit der SURE-Initiative stellt die EU einen Plan fĂŒr ein europĂ€isches Kurzarbeitergeld vor. Die Maßnahmen werden als Sozialprogramm fĂŒr die


EU SURE initiative: saving jobs or pleasing investors?

Herman Michiel and Klaus DrĂ€ger (*) 13 November 2020   When the European Commission finally realized that something serious was going on with corona, it launched, among other things, an


Pornography and anti-capitalism banned from English schools

Herman Michiel 29 September 2020   The British Department of Education last week announced guidelines to assist schools and teachers in England in their approach to sometimes ‘sensitive’ issues such


New but just as bad as before: the European asylum and migration policy

Herman Michiel (Ander Europa) 25 September 2020   On 23 September, the European Commission launched its proposal for a new asylum and migration policy. This consists of five legislative texts