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• Finkeldey: Naples rising: rebel youth movements buzz in the old city

  Naples’ citizens suffer from the multiple hardships of unemployment, austerity and mismanagement. Social movements jump in where institutions fail
• Zawisza: Poland between social nationalism and the new left

  Translation by Revolting Europe In ultra conservative Poland something is...
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  Grossman: From Germany: Horror and Sorrow

  A report from Berlin on causes of the spate of violence striking Germany and across Europe
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  Fisk: Qatar exerts huge control over British business, but it could be heading for an ‘Arab autumn’

  Investments by Qatar’s state-owned companies in Britain are the largest in western Europe
• Ridenour: Scandinavia on the Skids: The Failure of Social Democracy

  One of Denmark’s most serious problems is that the Social Democrats and the more leftist parties do not believe that the people are actually capable of ruling sensibly
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  Halimi: Provoking Russia

  One reason could be that it enables the US to prevent any rapprochement between them, and ensures, after Brexit, that its most biddable ally, the UK, remains closely bound to Europe’s military destiny
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  Fisk: We love to talk of terror – but after the Munich shooting, this hypocritical catch-all term has finally caught us out

  It all comes down to the same thing in the end. If Muslims attack us, they are terrorists. If non-Muslims attack us, they are shooters. If Muslims attack other Muslims, they are attackers
• Godoy: Germany’s Energy Transition: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  In Germany, wind and solar energy coexist with energy generated...
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  Feffer: Loss of Manufacturing Jobs and Lack of Housing Policy Have Led to Homelessness in Hungary

  Homelessness in Hungary no longer means exile or alienation as during the Soviet era, but no roof over one’s head
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  Baroud: From Nice to the Middle East: The Only Way to Challenge ISIS

  For many western commentators and politicians it is much easier – let alone safer – to discuss ISIS within impractical contexts, for example, Islam, than to take moral responsibility
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  Monbiot: Punishment Posting

  The more urgent the environmental crisis becomes, the less we hear about it
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  Hochschild: Me Tarzan, You Adam

  How I Met the Ghosts of My Own Work in a Local Multiplex
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  Rasmus: Looting Greece

  Did you think the debt crisis in Greece was over because it's not in the news anymore? It's still going on because there's more to be looted from that country
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  Wallerstein: France’s Ultra-Confused Present

  The multiple uncertainties within the parties in France make the recent back-stabbing within the British Conservative Party pale by comparison
• Freeman-Woolpert: Repression backfires in Serbia, fueling anti-corruption movement

  The protests in Belgrade have swelled in the wake of these violent and illegal actions, and the movement now symbolizes a larger struggle against corruption and state-sanctioned crime
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  Cole: Nice, France, Attack: A Gandhian Response to Serial Killers

  You want to reply effectively to Nice? Reject fear and reject hate
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  Hussain: After Nice, Don’t Give ISIS What It’s Asking For

  Not much is yet known about Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the 31-year-old...
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  Fisk: Hollande’s promise to respond militarily to the Nice attack just continues the West’s vicious circle of terror and war

  There is, in fact, a whole vocabulary of abuse for anyone who says that there are reasons for these acts of mass murder
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  Savio: International Is out and National Is Again Back

  The post-ideological world, which has accompanied globalization, has transformed political parties into machines of public opinion, directed to solve administrative problems
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  Reyes: Five keys to understanding the Spanish election

  A second Spanish general election in six months saw gains for the right-wing PP, which is again expected to form a government. But the insurgent left has also shown that it is here to stay