The Armenians’ “greatest error” was “to give in to a fatal hubris of thinking they could create a ‘Greater Armenia’ on territory emptied of the people who had lived there”, wrote the historian Ronald Grigor Suny. The irredentist ideology which was legitimised in the Nineties would be Armenia’s downfall.
EU politics
The New York Times: In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’
What happened to city planning? There was a time when new social housing was built integrated in stable neighbourhoods, thus avoiding the creation of ghettos. Social segregation seems to be back on the European agenda […]
Finance
The Irish Times: Ireland is the world’s biggest corporate ‘tax haven’, say academics
The government of Ireland insists it is not a tax haven. The EU thinks it is. So do tax NGOs. So do academics. How is it that everyone is getting this so wrong? Read here
EU politics
Klaus Lundström – In Sweden, Militarism Is on the Rise
‘Sweden long rejected militarism, even offering government funding to peace movements. Yet since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the political mood has changed abruptly, with a witch hunt launched against activists who oppose the country’s embrace […]
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