The New Ja nuary 2021. Vol. 1 Issue 9 Federalist The Bulletin

The relationship between tech companies and lawmakers; analysis from Inés Flor García in this week's top story.

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Source Charles Deluvio on Unsplash TRUMP’S TWITTER AND IN THIS NEWSLETTER FACEBOOK BAN SHEDS LIGHT ON

THE POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN IRELAND’S TECH COMPANIES AND THE RULE ‘THRIVING’ OF LAW ECONOMY: A LESSON IN BY INÉS FLOR GARCÍA DECEIVING GDP 3 ON JANUARY 6TH, TRUMP SUPPORTERS STORMED THE US CAPITOL IN AN ATTEMPT TO DELAY PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ITALY’S STATE ELECTION CERTIFICATION. AS SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YORK SECULARISM: TIMES, THE MOB ATTACK WAS UNQUESTIONABLY INCITED BY FULL OF FORMER US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. IN THE AFTERMATH CONTRADICTIONS OF THE INSURRECTION, BIG TECH COMPANIES SUCH AS 4 TWITTER, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, REDDIT, TWITCH, SHOPIFY, AND SNAPCHAT DECIDED TO INDEFINITELY SUSPEND TRUMP’S ACCOUNT. LOOKING OUTSIDE LIPA READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON OUR WEBSITE. 7 J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 V o l 1 . I S S U E 9 .

Elections

PORTUGAL’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: A FIGHT FOR THIS WAS BY FAR SECOND PLACE THE MOST TELEVISED B Y J O Ã O B E R N A R D O S O U S A ELECTION, WITH On Sunday, re-elected as its President for the next five years. The ELECTORAL result was more than expected, but the significance DEBATES IN of this election goes far beyond Marcelo’s victory. It raises fundamental questions about the future WHICH EVERY political landscape of a country considered, until CANDIDATE recently, immune to right-wing populisms. FACED EACH Read the full article on our website. OTHER.

TMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, at the Web Summit 2018 in , Portugal.Source: Diarmuid Greene/Web Summit/Sportsfile/Wikimedia Commons D E C EJMABNEURA 2R0Y2 02 0 2 1 V o l 1 . IISSSSUUEE 1 29 .

Economy & Trade

IRELAND’S ‘THRIVING’ ECONOMY: A LESSON IN DECEIVING GDP

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St. Patrick’s Day celebration, 2018CREDIT: gdtography, Creative Commons

B Y D E V I N S E A N M A R T I N

Coronavirus lockdowns have chocked and starved virtually every economy in Europe, from local businesses in the Italian countryside to Europe’s mega-corporations. One country, though, has managed to evade 2020’s tyrannical economic raid: Ireland. The island nation is on track to be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, all while seeing record high unemployment figures and a crippled tourism industry. On the surface, Ireland might appear to have achieved economic refuge in a world at war with a virus, but there is more to the Emerald Isle than meets the eye. Ireland’s economic success is more a credit to a legacy of low corporate tax and lucky geography than a mimicable strategy, but what should the rest of Europe make of Ireland’s profit?

Read the full article on our website. J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 V o l 1 . I S S U E 9 .

Society and Culture

I T A L Y ’ S S T A T E S E C U L A R I S M : F U L L O F C O N T R A D I C T I O N S

By Rebecca Wenmoth

Favoring Catholicism over Islam, from school benches to mosques’ building permits, Italy seems to have given its very own twist to the concept of religious neutrality. With this article, Rebecca Wenmoth finely displays the incoherences which puts at odds the Roman nation’s official state secularism with its effective implementation.

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D E M O C R A C Y A T T H E S Y S T E M C H A N G E : A D R E A M C O M E T R U E ?

By Balázs Sean Brandt

In the framework of the project “Democracy is Europe”, UEF and JEF Hungary are organizing a series of two-part talks, which aims to draw inspiration from the change of regime and the events of 30 years ago to solve the current challenges of democracy in Hungary and the . We will have the first conversation on 22 January, the main topic of which, in addition to recalling the events, will be how we thought about democracy and Europe at the time. Read the full article on our website

The conclusion of CAI negotiations with EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel – joined by German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron – and Chinese President J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 V o l 1 . I S S U E 9 .

Social Fabric

The Calais ‘Jungle’ refugee camp before it was demolished. Photo: WikiMedia, Creative Commons

“WE KNOW THEY DON’T WANT US HERE”: STORIES OF FRENCH POLICE’S SYSTEMATIC SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST REFUGEES POLICE BRUTALITY HAS BEEN Newly elected CDU leader Armin Laschet. SourceB: DYW K/ FlOickNr (CSCT BYA-NNC T2.0I)N A M I R T Z A N I DELIBERATELY On November 23rd 2020, French police violently dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the heart of Paris, clashing TARGETING with migrants and activists, who were protesting the REFUGEES AND profound lack of accommodation and infrastructure for the country’s refugees and immigrants. Images of French police MIGRANTS, officers violently removing the protesters turned the spotlight once again on the country’s issue of police brutality.

Read the full article on our website. Photo by S&B Vonlanthen J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 V o l 1 . I S S U E 9 .

Europe in the World

THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: PERSPECTIVES OF AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT IN A DEADLOCK

B Y F R Y D E R Y K L A C H A I S E , T R A N S L A T E D B Y M A R I A P O P C Z Y K , W O J C I E C H Z A J Ą C Z K O W S K I

Three years ago, Witold Jurasz, a former Polish diplomat with experience in the East and the current director of the Centre for Strategic Analysis, stated on the Defence.24 website that the Eastern Partnership is “de facto dead.”

This opinion on that significant political project, which probably would not have been launched without Poland’s involvement, was formulated shortly after Association Agreements between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia came into force. However, looking at recent developments beyond Poland’s Eastern border, it is hard to resist the impression that this initiative, aimed at bringing East European countries, the Caucasus, and the EU closer, has not been entirely successful.

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Image copyright: https://www.dw.com/en/fire-at-bosnia-migrant-camp-authorities-blame-residents/a-56047531

LOOKING OUTSIDE LIPA

B Y N I C H O L A S K U L A W I A K

“ In late December 2020, the slow-moving humanitarian crisis playing out in Northwest Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) reached a critical inflection point. A day after the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which had been providing humanitarian support to the Lipa migrant camp, declared the facility closed due to the Bosnian government’s lack of support, it was destroyed by a fire likely started by the camp’s former residents.

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