By Nikolas Spanoudakis Every new year is a year full of surprises. As nobody can predict the future we are always getting excited with the arrival of a new year and everything it brings with it. So it is with 2019. However for us, the European citizens, 2019 comes with an especially important event: the European elections. The challenges that…
By Nikolas Spanoudakis Until five years ago I didn’t know her. Although she has had a long career in Danish politics, she was a complete stranger to me. But then gradually she started to attract the attention of the media for some good reason. Thus, when the editors of Uttryck…
By Nikolas Spanoudakis Ursula von der what? If this is your reaction,…
If you are a student reading the online version of Uttryck then…
By Nikolas Spanoudakis Being a citizen and holding citizenship is something relatively new in human history. The two concepts were first introduced during the ancient Athenian democracy. Fast forward to our modern times, another citizenship that was “invented” was the EU citizenship, which will be the focus of this article.…
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Jag har alltid varit intresserad av att bättre förstå förhållandet mellan EU och Sverige och de två frågorna låg alltid i kärnan av min “forskning”. Då hade jag turen att hitta en bok som försöker ge några av svaren.…
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If you are a student reading the online version of Uttryck then it’s quite probable you only have heard about the fall of the Berlin wall as you were not born by the time it happened. However this historic moment, which took place thirty years ago, triggered a series of…
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By Nikolas Spanoudakis Ursula von der what? If this is your reaction, don’t worry. You are not the only one. Before writing this article I asked several friends if they had heard about Ursula von der Leyen (hereafter Ursula vdL) and the results were rather disappointing. Only a few of…
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Av Nikolas Spanoudakis I Sverige finns ett motstånd mot att införa euron som valuta. Enligt Flash Eurobarometern 453, från april 2017, vill 62 procent av svenskarna som deltog i undersökningen inte att Sverige ska införa euron. Även om jag är medveten om att finns argument mot den gemensamma valutan, fortsätter…
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By Nikolas Spanoudakis Those who love to read the online version of Uttryck Magazine have recently noticed the article “The little union that could – what the European Union means to me” written by Joakim Ydebäck. In this article he presents the point of view that the European Union (EU)…
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By Nikolas Spanoudakis Until five years ago I didn’t know her. Although she has had a long career in Danish politics, she was a complete stranger to me. But then gradually she started to attract the attention of the media for some good reason. Thus, when the editors of Uttryck…
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Av Nikolas Spanoudakis USA har nyligen infört en “global skatt” som beskattar alla företag som har ekonomisk verksamhet i flera delstater. Denna policy har som syfte att minska skatteflykter inom USA. Just detta överraskade mig då införandet av nya skatter i USA brukar bli illa bemött av befolkningen. Sedan blev…
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By Nikolas Spanoudakis Every new year is a year full of surprises. As nobody can predict the future we are always getting excited with the arrival of a new year and everything it brings with it. So it is with 2019. However for us, the European citizens, 2019 comes with…
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By Nikolas Spanoudakis The globalisation has definitely changed our world in many aspects. In fact, the rise of the internet along with the increasing transport connectivity have made the creation of international communities or organisations possible which have never been imagined before the last century. Nowadays you can connect to…
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