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Euroviews. '1983' is Netflix's dystopian answer to 'The Man in the High Castle'

“1983” makes the argument that true global entertainment is good for viewers around the world. I'm convinced.

World News

Euroviews. The week that was: Jumping into the unknown on Mars, Brexit and AI

A weekly round-up of the discussions on View that have been driving debate across Europe and further afield.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. The Commonwealth is key to Britain’s post-Brexit success | View

It is [...] no coincidence that H.R.H. Prince Harry visited Zambia this week. A vibrant, democratically-stable, environmentally-aware nation, and one of the main success stories of post-colonialism.

Hungary

Euroviews. Much more than a university leaves Budapest when the CEU goes | View

The Central European University may have been an American institution, but for many Hungarians, it represented a bright future for young Hungarians. Now it has been lost to Budapest forever.

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World News

Euroviews. Guy Verhofstadt: Europe à la carte is not on the menu | View

Sooner rather than later [...] the EU must be able to prevent and correct breaches of Union values. We should create the powers to apply sanctions – if necessary including financial sanctions - that can act as effective deterrence.

Morocco

Euroviews. Can the EU turn migration into an opportunity? | View

With effective management mechanisms at a global and regional level, migration could be rendered a source of prosperity instead of a source of conflict.

World News

Euroviews. Artificial Intelligence and Populism: How to avoid a catastrophe?

Even if we are true believers in the power of technology, in the benefits of creative destruction, we should not kid ourselves: the fourth industrial revolution, if left untamed, could increase inequality, weaken the social fiber of our society, and put under threat the core of democracy and peace.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Queue jumpers of Europe, unite! | View

Theresa May called EU citizens who have made their home in the UK "queue jumpers". Being vilified in their adopted country by the Prime Minister has left many feeling angered - and more like strangers in their own home.

World News

Euroviews. The Mars landing could lead to human colonization, and the end of Martian life | View

If any of [human] missions [to Mars] finds more concrete evidence of life, even of the microscopic variety, we all will face a moral and ethical quandary. Do microscopic and presumably non-sentient beings on another planet have the right to be protected from us? Is Mars their planet?

United Kingdom

Euroviews. Scotland's Brexit dilemma: deal, no deal or independence | View

Scotland has been a bystander in the last two years of the Brexit saga. But what next for Scotland? Accept May's Brexit deal, fight to halt Brexit or renew calls for independence.

World News

Euroviews. No, Australian farmers have nothing to fear from new EU rules | View

New EU rules on antibiotics use in herds are designed to make it a level playing field for all farmers - not just those in Europe.

World News

Euroviews. A wave of women fighting rape across Europe | View

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, it is timely to pay homage to the women who keep fighting for their unequivocal right to autonomy over their own bodies.

United Kingdom

Euroviews. The current Brexit debate is the deluded fighting with those in denial

The U.K. — a nation which in living memory was administering the largest empire in the history of the world — is at present a country where the deluded are fighting with those in denial. It could all end very badly indeed.

World News

Euroviews. The week that was: Brexit, hate speech and the rule of law | View

We take look at the hot topics in the View section that have had you talking this week.

Germany

Euroviews. Germany’s NetzDG needs help to stem online hate speech | View

Online hate must be combatted, and will is not enough – we must ensure the tools we are using are as optimal as they can be. Failure on either front will mean those who spread hate online win.

Poland

Euroviews. After a 'tactical retreat' over judges - what next for Poland? | View

The rulers [in Poland] do not behave as if they were meaningful constrained by law; whenever it does not suit their political purposes, they simply amend it. This is not a rule of law, this is rule by law.

Hungary

Euroviews. Rule of law mechanism: A procedure without law? | View

The Hungarian government regards the resolution on triggering Article 7 procedure as a punishment for its anti-migration policy.

France

Euroviews. French anti-terror laws are robbing people of their freedom | View

By concentrating power in the hands of the [French] government - completely outside of the normal criminal justice system - administrative [anti-terrorist] control measures are open to abuse and discriminatory application, including toward Muslims.

USA

Euroviews. Trump's stubborn support for Saudi Arabia is indefensible | View

Some of the bombs being dropped on poor Yemenis — including on the school bus where 40 children died in August 2018 — were made in America. So were the planes from which they are being dropped.

World News

Euroviews. Training to be Magnus Carlsen: How chess makes children smarter | View

Players battling it out to be world champion command millions of dollars in winnings and sponsorship. But chess has long been linked to high brain capacity - and could help make children smarter.