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World News
Euroviews. Guy Verhofstadt: Europe à la carte is not on the menu | View
Sooner rather than later [...] the EU must be able to prevent and correct breaches of Union values. We should create the powers to apply sanctions – if necessary including financial sanctions - that can act as effective deterrence.
World News
Euroviews. Artificial Intelligence and Populism: How to avoid a catastrophe?
Even if we are true believers in the power of technology, in the benefits of creative destruction, we should not kid ourselves: the fourth industrial revolution, if left untamed, could increase inequality, weaken the social fiber of our society, and put under threat the core of democracy and peace.
World News
Euroviews. The Mars landing could lead to human colonization, and the end of Martian life | View
If any of [human] missions [to Mars] finds more concrete evidence of life, even of the microscopic variety, we all will face a moral and ethical quandary. Do microscopic and presumably non-sentient beings on another planet have the right to be protected from us? Is Mars their planet?
United Kingdom
Euroviews. The current Brexit debate is the deluded fighting with those in denial
The U.K. — a nation which in living memory was administering the largest empire in the history of the world — is at present a country where the deluded are fighting with those in denial. It could all end very badly indeed.
France
Euroviews. French anti-terror laws are robbing people of their freedom | View
By concentrating power in the hands of the [French] government - completely outside of the normal criminal justice system - administrative [anti-terrorist] control measures are open to abuse and discriminatory application, including toward Muslims.