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The border, the bridge and the gate: building a conceptual framework to understand Mediterranean security challenges
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The border, the bridge and the gate: building a conceptual framework to understand Mediterranean security challenges

Introduction In the past centuries, the Mediterranean has become, from many points of view, a border. Border between Christians on the North and Muslims on the South and the East. Border between Arabic and Latin languages. Border between a mainly desert landscape thus lifestyle and a much fertile one in the North. Border between colonial […]
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The Enigmatic Conflict of Legitimacy in the European Parliament
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The Enigmatic Conflict of Legitimacy in the European Parliament

The European Union (EU) brings forth a renewed form of united diversity coupled with spirits of optimism. Solidifying fostered collaboration, empowering economic activity, and celebrating democracy, this body has emerged to become a unique political and economic intergovernmental organization that is supranational in nature. Ultimately, the union’s formation was a response to the destruction of […]
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Why is the EU’s decision-making system so messy?

Introduction Critics and Eurosceptics claim that the decision-making process of the European Union involves little more than groups of elitist bureaucrats gathering in secret meetings and plotting their latest methods to erode the national sovereignty of the EU’s member states, with the ultimate aim of concentrating power in their hands. Defenders of the EU paint […]
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