Gender equality and EU politics: Hold the money!
Making EU funding available on the condition that the recipient monitors the money’s impact on men and women has become the new normal. STG Research Fellow Costanza Hermanin and Project Associate Carlotta Osti propose some further actions the EU could take to give even more clout to gender equality measures.
Legacies of empire: Through the voice of war veteran Isaías
Early activists in the fight for restitution of African art
In this post, history researcher Dario Willi takes us back to a catalytic moment in the art restitution movement, when the Ghanaian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo publicised the innumerable artworks and artefacts languishing in the British Museum, after their removal from source communities in a context of colonial domination.
The end of self-delusion? Challenging slavery’s heritage in Spain and Catalonia
Catalonia’s merchants and towns profited hugely from the transatlantic slave trade after it was banned in the nineteenth century, as history researcher Adrià Enríquez Àlvaro documents. The good news is the recent movements to critique and reverse official amnesia, regarding public history and monuments.
The young generation needs an idea of Europe
‘Mad Bull’ Hitler: Communicating the World War to a Black audience in colonial Zambia
On the commemoration in Germany of Anton Wilhelm Amo
Being Black in Europe
Does COVID-19 herald a boon for golden passport schemes in Europe?
The granting of residency or citizenship in exchange for investment is an established – and legal – practice in many states, but it sits uneasily with ‘European values’ as usually promoted. Policy Leader Fellow Anna Patricia Valerio looks into how these schemes are evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic.