Anis H. Bajrektarevic
(Professor in international law and global political studies, based in Vienna, Austria, His previous book titled Geopolitics of Technology – Is There Life after Facebook? is published by the New York's Addleton Academic Publishers. His forthcoming book titled Geopolitics – Europe 100 years later is coming soon)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr)
Publication date: 10 January 2015
There is a claim constantly circulating the EU: 'multiculturalism is dead in Europe'. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize their appearance in prism of the solid Union, as if they themselves lived a long, cordial and credible history of multiculturalism. Hence, this claim is of course false. It is also cynical because it is purposely misleading. No wonder, as the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its most important debates – that of European anti-fascistic identity, or otherness – to the wing-parties, repeatedly followed by the selective and contra-productive foreign policy actions....Read more