At Brussels Forum a few weeks ago, BBC World taped an episode of The World Debate, with Nik Gowing as the host. They have posted the video on their webpage. Enjoy!

Where “Balkanization” has come to mean the breaking up of a country into smaller, hostile territories, two weeks ago saw the “anti-Balkanization” of the historically hostile Balkan region. And all because of a TV show.

As this piece from the New York Times/International Herald Tribune discusses, … Continue Reading…

According to a study conducted by the British firm FDS, and partially published by the AFP, French workers are the ones who complain and moan the most at work, followed by British and Swedish employees ex aequo. Americans come right after, even if, according to the study, they … Continue Reading…

On Saturday, Turkey witnessed one of its republican history’s largest rally. Hundreds of thousands of people — from children to elders, from farmers to artists, from socialists to nationalists — traveled from across the country to Ankara not only … Continue Reading…

GMF is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a program for young leaders from the United States and Europe to travel the opposite continent to learn more about the transatlantic relationship and the issues affecting it.

One of this year’s American fellows, … Continue Reading…

A tabernacle of Germanness — or rather Bavarianness, one of its Holies of Holies, really — has been stormed by a German Turk. Django Asül (born in the small South German town of Hengersberg in 1972 as Ugur Bagisayici) will do the “Starkbieranstich” on the Nockherberg. There are … Continue Reading…