We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away. José Machado Pais This […]
Europe
New immigration policies: a disturbing reality
The European Union Commission and the UK’s immigration policies, when viewed through a lens stripped of diplomatic niceties, reveal a disconcerting reality as the humanitarian aspect of immigration risks being neglected. Such policies exert significant influence on the socio-economic fabric of nations. Rola Zamzameh* Recent developments in the […]
Unprecedented pluri-national State emerges in Spain
Since the General Elections of July 13, the very close result between the right-wing and left-wing coalitions caused a 180-degree turn in the political landscape and, possibly, in its own historical trajectory, built after the death of the dictator Franco, by establishing Democracy and the approval of the Constitution of 1978.
The crisis of capitalism and social unrest
The neoliberal discourse proposed, among other things, to put an end to the cyclical crises of the capitalist system, giving way to a scenario of permanent progress for all humanity. Juan Diego García That is why one of its central measures was to reduce the role of the […]
Immigrants: finding a multicultural identity
Language is both part of identity and also an easy means for others to treat an immigrant as an outsider: “You don’t belong here”. Film director Melanie Pereira talks about the impact on her and her friends of speaking Luzembourgish with an accent, and how in London one of them […]