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European Union

Climate Change

Suing the European Union Over Climate Change

By Daniel Boffey * A case is being pursued against the European parliament and the council of the EU for allowing overly high greenhouse gas emissions to continue. Lawyers acting for a group including a French lavender farmer and members of the indigenous Sami community in…

Democracy

What’s the Matter With Europe?

By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times If you had to identify a place and time where the humanitarian dream — the vision of a society offering decent lives to all its members — came closest to realization, that place and time would surely be Western Europe in the six decades…