Eunice Goes writes for openDemocracy | Europe and its myopic leaders

12/05/2011

Europe’s leaders are reversing their historically generous role in assisting countries out of criminality and fascism. What we are seeing now therefore strikes at the heart of the European project not just the euro.

There was a time when we knew what the European Union was about. Democracy, cosmopolitanism and the European social model were the ideals that most Europeans associated the EU with. Now, thanks to the crisis in the Eurozone it’s not so easy to understand what... [read the full article on the openDemocracy website].

 

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Eunice Goes is Assistant Professor of Communications at Richmond University and a Portugese broadcaster and blogger.

 

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