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The Bulletin

TRUMP’S TWITTER ANDFACEBOOK BAN SHEDS LIGHT ONTHE POWER STRUGGLE BETWEENTECH COMPANIES AND THE RULEOF LAW

BY INÉS FLOR GARCÍA

ON JANUARY 6TH, TRUMP SUPPORTERS STORMED THE USCAPITOL IN AN ATTEMPT TO DELAY PRESIDENT BIDEN’SELECTION CERTIFICATION. AS SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YORKTIMES, THE MOB ATTACK WAS UNQUESTIONABLY INCITED BYFORMER US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. IN THE AFTERMATHOF THE INSURRECTION, BIG TECH COMPANIES SUCH ASTWITTER, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, REDDIT, TWITCH, SHOPIFY,AND SNAPCHAT DECIDED TO INDEFINITELY SUSPENDTRUMP’S ACCOUNT.

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IN THISNEWSLETTER

IRELAND’S‘THRIVING’

ECONOMY: ALESSON IN

DECEIVING GDP3

ITALY’S STATESECULARISM:

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The New Federalist

January 2021. Vol. 1 Issue 9

The relationship between tech companies and lawmakers;analysis from Inés Flor García in this week's top story.

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Elections

PORTUGAL’SPRESIDENTIALELECTION: A FIGHT FORSECOND PLACE

B Y J O Ã O B E R N A R D O S O U S A

On Sunday, Portugal re-elected Marcelo Rebelo deSousa as its President for the next five years. Theresult was more than expected, but the significanceof this election goes far beyond Marcelo’s victory. Itraises fundamental questions about the futurepolitical landscape of a country considered, untilrecently, immune to right-wing populisms.

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THIS WAS BY FARTHE MOSTTELEVISED

ELECTION, WITHELECTORALDEBATES IN

WHICH EVERYCANDIDATE

FACED EACHOTHER.

TMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, at the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon,Portugal.Source: Diarmuid Greene/Web Summit/Sportsfile/Wikimedia Commons

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Economy & Trade

IRELAND’S ‘THRIVING’ ECONOMY: ALESSON IN DECEIVING GDP

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Coronavirus lockdowns have chocked and starved virtually every economy in Europe, fromlocal businesses in the Italian countryside to Europe’s mega-corporations. One country,though, has managed to evade 2020’s tyrannical economic raid: Ireland. The island nationis on track to be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, all while seeing recordhigh unemployment figures and a crippled tourism industry. On the surface, Ireland mightappear to have achieved economic refuge in a world at war with a virus, but there is moreto the Emerald Isle than meets the eye. Ireland’s economic success is more a credit to alegacy of low corporate tax and lucky geography than a mimicable strategy, but whatshould the rest of Europe make of Ireland’s profit?

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St. Patrick’s Day celebration, 2018CREDIT: gdtography, Creative Commons

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Society and Culture

In the framework of the project “Democracy isEurope”, UEF and JEF Hungary are organizing aseries of two-part talks, which aims to drawinspiration from the change of regime and theevents of 30 years ago to solve the currentchallenges of democracy in Hungary and theEuropean Union. We will have the firstconversation on 22 January, the main topic ofwhich, in addition to recalling the events, will behow we thought about democracy and Europeat the time.

The conclusion of CAI negotiations with EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel– joined by German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron – and Chinese President

D E M O C R A C Y A T T H E S Y S T E MC H A N G E : A D R E A M C O M E T R U E ?

By Balázs Sean Brandt

I T A L Y ’ S S T A T E S E C U L A R I S M : F U L LO F C O N T R A D I C T I O N S

By Rebecca Wenmoth

Favoring Catholicism over Islam, from schoolbenches to mosques’ building permits, Italyseems to have given its very own twist to theconcept of religious neutrality. With this article,Rebecca Wenmoth finely displays theincoherences which puts at odds the Romannation’s official state secularism with its effectiveimplementation.

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Newly elected CDU leader Armin Laschet. Source: DW / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Social Fabric

SYSTEMATICPOLICE BRUTALITY

HAS BEENDELIBERATELY

TARGETINGREFUGEES AND

MIGRANTS,

“WE KNOW THEY DON’TWANT US HERE”:STORIES OF FRENCHPOLICE’S SYSTEMATICDISCRIMINATIONAGAINST REFUGEES

B Y K O N S T A N T I N A M I R T Z A N I

On November 23rd 2020, French police violently dismantleda makeshift migrant camp in the heart of Paris, clashingwith migrants and activists, who were protesting theprofound lack of accommodation and infrastructure for thecountry’s refugees and immigrants. Images of French policeofficers violently removing the protesters turned thespotlight once again on the country’s issue of policebrutality.

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The Calais ‘Jungle’ refugee camp before it was demolished.Photo: WikiMedia, Creative Commons

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THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP:PERSPECTIVES OF AN AMBITIOUS

PROJECT IN A DEADLOCK

B Y F R Y D E R Y K L A C H A I S E , T R A N S L A T E D B Y M A R I A P O P C Z Y K , W O J C I E C H Z A J Ą C Z K O W S K I

Three years ago, Witold Jurasz, a former Polish diplomat with experience in the East andthe current director of the Centre for Strategic Analysis, stated on the Defence.24website that the Eastern Partnership is “de facto dead.”

This opinion on that significant political project, which probably would not have beenlaunched without Poland’s involvement, was formulated shortly after AssociationAgreements between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia came into force.However, looking at recent developments beyond Poland’s Eastern border, it is hard toresist the impression that this initiative, aimed at bringing East European countries, theCaucasus, and the EU closer, has not been entirely successful.

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Europe in the World

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B Y N I C H O L A S K U L A W I A K

In late December 2020, the slow-moving humanitarian crisis playing out in NorthwestBosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) reached a critical inflection point. A day after theInternational Organization for Migration (IOM), which had been providing humanitariansupport to the Lipa migrant camp, declared the facility closed due to the Bosniangovernment’s lack of support, it was destroyed by a fire likely started by the camp’sformer residents.

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