The Soviet Union left several territorial disputes after its fall. Nagorno-Karabakh or as locals call it Artsakh is one of them. During the rule of the USSR, borders were drawn between the countries, and Armenian-majority Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) was established within Soviet Azerbaijan. ... Keep reading
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12.3.2020 a les 09:00h
Who are the Macedonians, the inhabitants of North Macedonia? Bulgarians will say that they are a division of their community, an artificial creation of late Yugoslav leader Tito. Most Macedonians, however, will point to an earlier identity division in the last decades of the 19th century, born in the geographical region of Macedonia. Some will go further, to differences in tribes that reach the periods of Cyril and Methodius —the creators of the Slavic alphabet— or Alexander the Great. A few, the most exaggerated, will claim that all Europeans are actually Slavs. In North Macedonia, after so much forcing reality, after so much looking for references for political odysseys, its inhabitants do not know what they are, or at least they lack a unified discourse about the genesis of their identity. Keep reading
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10.2.2020 a les 11:15h
Sinn Féin emerged for the first time in history the largest party in a general election in the Republic of Ireland, overtaking the two centre-right parties (Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael) that have dominated Irish politics since independence. The republican party has won the vote under a left-wing manifesto that proposes to begin a gradual process towards “securing” a referendum on Irish unity. Keep reading
At least during the past five years, the political conversation in Britain has been remarkably monopolized by the debate on Brexit. In 2016, the UK decided to leave the European Union by a narrow margin (51,89%). Moreover, the recent Westminster election has given a landslide majority to a conservative government that has promised to implement this decision by the end of January 2020. Together with some other relevant issues such as the economy or the policy on migration, the Brexit debate has revolved around the state of the union as well. The question posed by many commentators has been whether or not the UK will preserve its territorial integrity after leaving the EU, since Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain. Keep reading
