United States - Jesuit European Social Centre https://jesc.eu Vision and Values for Europe Mon, 22 May 2017 08:36:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 You shall not tell lies! https://jesc.eu/you-shall-not-tell-lies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-shall-not-tell-lies Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:16:21 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=1401 The spread of fake news has made truth and lies an urgent topic of political and social debate. The Association for the German Language chose the new idiom “postfaktisch” (post-truth) as its Word of the Year for 2016. The publisher of the Oxford Dictionary also chose the English term “post-truth” as its International Word of […]

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]]> The US elections – a rude awakening in Europe https://jesc.eu/the-us-elections-a-rude-awakening-in-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-us-elections-a-rude-awakening-in-europe Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:58:25 +0000 https://jesc.eu/?p=1201 The election of Donald Trump as the future 45th US President took place on 9 November, 27 years to the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Does it herald a comparable cataclysm in world politics? Like the British referendum in June, the US election came as a rude awakening to many in Europe. […]

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