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Euroviews. The week that was: building a community ǀ View

Our weekly round-up of all the View opinions that have been driving debate across Europe and beyond over the last seven days.

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Euroviews. A new kind of democracy is needed to change the EU for the better ǀ View

There are more than 500 million people living currently in the European Union. How can they influence the decisions on the European level which are related to their lives?

USA

Euroviews. Democrats know they can't trust AG Barr. But they have a plan ǀ View

If past truly is prologue, the next sequence of events will mirror what we saw earlier this decade when Republicans controlled the oversight committees.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. LGBT education in the UK must not stop with children when adults are part of the problem ǀ View

The UK’s track record for the discussion of LGBT+ topics in the classroom remains poor. But all that could change is parents get behind the changes being introduced by the government.

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Euroviews. How the EU fails patients trying to access critical medicines ǀ View

Patients in Europe are unable to access the medicines they need, failed by an inconsistent system across the EU. A progressive plan for the future of healthcare provision across the continent is much needed.

Israel

Euroviews. Bibi fatigue: How the Israeli election became a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu ǀ View

This is a race between two competing perspectives: Those who have Bibi fatigue and those who see Netanyahu as indispensable to the nation.

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Euroviews. The week that was: telling both sides of every tale ǀ View

Our weekly round-up of all the View opinions that have been driving debate across Europe and beyond.

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Euroviews. Internal strife: as it turns 70, NATO’s greatest enemy is itself ǀ View

NATO has much to celebrate but if the alliance is to survive in the coming decades it has to find ways to adapt to the evolving and emerging threats, and to manage tension in the transatlantic relationship.

Poland

Euroviews. When Polish judges become human rights defenders ǀ View

In a significant move today, the European Commission launched an infringement procedure to protect judges in Poland from political control. [...] By failing to protect judges from political interference, the country’s disciplinary regime [...] threatens the functioning of the EU as a whole.

USA

Euroviews. Why Watergate prosecutors could prove obstruction. And why Mueller couldn't ǀ View

In contrast with Nixon’s White House, Trump’s White House is unlikely to produce a smoking gun tape. But do we need one?

Turkey

Euroviews. Turkish democracy is alive and well. And could teach Europe a thing or two ǀ View

An electoral upset for Erdogan's ruling party shows that for all its faults, Turkey is a strong, working democracy - and it is the kind of friend Europe needs right now.

USA

Euroviews. Why is Trump still ignoring Saudi Arabia's brutal human rights abuses? ǀ View

The Saudi regime is subjecting female activists and other political prisoners to imprisonment, torture and sexual abuse. And America says nothing.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Britain fought wars to save Europe. Now it has lost itself - and Europe - over Brexit ǀ View

The idealised memories of British victories in the Great Wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are impossible to reconcile with the reality of Britain’s actual global role in 2019.

USA

Euroviews. The alt right is fueled by toxic masculinity — and vice versa ǀ View

The rising alt-right took many of the men’s rights activists' most backward notions about women and worked them into their own hateful rhetoric.

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Euroviews. Despite our Brexit differences, we must work together for the common good ǀ View

It is in our mutual interest to make a success of the Brexit negotiations and rescue a deal that will allow us to continue to trade and work together as closely as we have before.

USA

Euroviews. Here's what happens when America's rich feel threatened by the super-rich ǀ View

The price of admission for everything coveted has gone up — and it all comes down to the destructive effects of a runaway train called economic inequality.

Libya

Euroviews. The EU must unite to save lives in the Mediterranean and stabilise Libya ǀ View

The EU must look at Libya beyond the lens of curbing migration. This approach has exacerbated conflict in the country and fuelled violence and human rights abuses.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. What in the world is happening with Brexit? ǀ View

A state of unprecedented political chaos has overwhelmed the UK, starting with Theresa May's offer to resign.

World News

Euroviews. The week that was: is identity a battle between light and darkness?

A belated round-up for this month's best View articles which have been driving debate across Europe over the last few weeks.

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Euroviews. Future wars will be waged with robots. But so might future peace ǀ View

Artificial intelligence (AI) usually makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. [...] At the United Nations we have been exploring completely different scenarios for AI: its potential to be used for the noble purposes of peace and security.