Euroscepticism empowered by the new crisis. Around the mid-1990s the European Union was as his peak of popularity as measured by Eurobarometer data.[1] The data reflects deeper trends such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War which had had a deep impact on European history in a way given the European Union a …

 Digital technologies and polarization From newspapers to television, the different means through which people share knowledge and information, and their subsequent evolution, have played a major role in shaping peoples’ views (Shanahan et al. 1999, p. 2). With technological developments, we have reached an age where communication and information sharing has never been so fast and widespread. This moulding of …

It has been two years now that Julian Assange has been living secluded in the Embassy of Equator in London. This Wednesday, the co-founder of WikiLeaks has given a press conference by phone call to ensure that he is cooperating with Edward Snowden and to defend his name against defamation attempts. Julian Assange ensured journalists that WikiLeaks is still alive, …

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a veteran businessman and a former spy, meet in person for the first time on Friday in the most highly anticipated encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit.  Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal made more difficult by sharp differences over Russia’s …

The U.S. economy added the biggest number of jobs in more than 1-1/2 years in February, but a slowdown in wage growth pointed to only a gradual increase in inflation this year Nonfarm payrolls jumped by 313,000 jobs last month, boosted by the largest rise in construction jobs since 2007, the Labor Department said on Friday. The payrolls gain was …

Airbus urged the German government on Wednesday to ensure domestic firms get a big share of a near 4-billion-euro contract earmarked for the country’s next generation of heavy-lift military helicopters. German defense officials have said they want a low-risk heavy-lift helicopter that already exists, which means the likely supplier will be one of the two biggest U.S. weapons makers – …

Americans celebrate July 4 with leisure and gluttony Americans will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday with fireworks, acts of gluttony and escapes to the beach, even for people in New Jersey where legislators brokered a last-minute deal to reopen state parks. In keeping with tradition, cities across the country will launch fireworks after dark, perhaps the most emblematic way to …

Sterling, which jumped last week on expectations of a BoE shift towards higher borrowing costs, fell after the Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index(PMI) slipped to 54.3 from a downwardly revised 56.3 in May, a three-month low. The reading was below all forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists that had pointed to a reading of 56.5. It also contrasted …

Former CIA head, retired General Michael Hayden, has expressed in front of the cameras of CNN’s Jim Sciutto, for « Fareed Zakaria GPS », his fear that ISIS would « sooner rather than later » attack targets in Europe and the USA, going so far as to suggest it would organise attacks of an intensity similar to 9/11. But it seems that such fears …

Two Human Rights Watch reports have been published, denouncing the recruitment campaigns of Islamists, that have targeted children (http://www.hrw.org/node/126063/) and their use of cluster bombs in Syria (www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/01/syria-evidence-islamic-state-cluster-munition-use). Bashar Al-Assad’s regime has also been documented to be massively using cluster bombs. Child soldiers Youngsters have been trained and armed by ISIS in order to undertake suicide attacks. Other groups, like …