Yuval Noah Harari is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind (2011 in Hebrew; and 2014 in English) has been an international bestseller and translated into 30 languages. It has been compared positively to the most famous works in global and big history and reviewed favourably in many of the best-known newspapers in the world. Some people even claim to have changed their worldview because of the book.
EU’s neighbourhood policy, Russia, and the conflict in Ukraine
Here is an amended and completed version of the talk I gave at the peace conference “The EU –Neighbourhood Policy in the Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood” on 11 December 2015, at the European parliament in Brussels. The event was organised by the GUE-NGL group.
Politics, the reality of time, and the singularity of cosmos
A review and discussion essay based on R.M. Unger & L. Smolin (2015) The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, Cambridge University Press, 543 p.
A year since LuxLeaks and it’s still business as usual. The EU needs a fresh start in the fight against tax avoidance and evasion
On 5 November 2014, a group of international journalists publicly revealed that more than 300 multinationals had agreed secret deals – the so called ‘tax rulings’ – with the Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010 in order to slash their global tax bills. The Luxleaks scandal was born. [This article is being published in a number of newspapers across Europe, starting with Liberation and Le Soir today, with others to follow on the 5th. Please feel free to circulate further!]
