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Paal Frisvold

Writer for MODERN TIMES on Europe issues.

A star is born – new French Emmanuel Macron

He is young, handsome and eloquent. With his energy and radiance is Emmanuel Macron France's John F. Kennedy. But does he have a policy? 
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Eva Joly: "Norway stands alone in Europe"

She has been called crazy, icy and revolutionary by the French establishment, and is a seasoned participant in Europe's most important political arena. Ny Tid has met Eva Joly.
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An artistic masterpiece

War, torture and love form the backdrop to the total collapse of civilization and rationality.
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The timelessness of globalization

Herbjørnsrud has written a very important book on the most important political phenomenon of our time – but a book for the few.
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About the EU's five fathers

The story of how five politically very different, but convinced and stubborn elites laid the foundations for the supranational European cooperation.
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Will give France back the belief in itself

The urge to "jump off" a runaway world needs to be replaced with the courage to venture into the future, believes Pascal Lamy.  
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Norwegian left side's inability to see the world we live in

Glucksmann has many and innovative ideas to save Europe from renationalisation.
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Carsten Juhl and others: Je suis Charlie – ainsi suit-il

"War politics and constitutional ethnocracy in Denmark or the Party of Freedom of Expression – which is party to Islam"
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Escande and Cassini: Bienvenue dans le capitalisme 3.0

It is long before the sharing economy gives sounding coins in the common fund.
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