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The European response to the Ceuta crisis may come to be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the history of European integration. Spain was defending the EU’s external border under extraordinary pressure. Instead of responding with solidarity, several Member States chose to politicise the crisis. Italy and…

Like many Europeans, I felt deep unease, not only at the deaths in Ceuta, but at Europe’s dehumanised response. EU leaders fell into the trap of treating the crisis as an invasion, despite signs that it had been fuelled by a third-country-led social-media campaign intended to provoke precisely that reaction. By em…

This is the first time in 30 years that I’ve been asked to show ID to cross an internal border of Europe’s free-travel zone. No, this is more than an inconvenience. It marks the return of the Europe of yesterday. It is self-defeating. And the fact that almost nobody seems to care -not even the EU Commission whose…

The European response to the Ceuta crisis may come to be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the history of European integration. Spain was defending the EU’s external border under extraordinary pressure. Instead of responding with solidarity, several Member States chose to politicise the crisis. Italy and…

This is the first time in 30 years that I’ve been asked to show ID to cross an internal border of Europe’s free-travel zone. No, this is more than an inconvenience. It marks the return of the Europe of yesterday. It is self-defeating. And the fact that almost nobody seems to care -not even the EU Commission whose…

Wow! After 450 years, the UN voted 164-1 to replace the Mercator map as the default reference. On it, Greenland looks the size of Africa. In reality, Africa is 14x bigger — big enough to hold the US, China, India, most of Europe and Japan combined. Cartography is catching up with geography, but when does the UN sy…