Europe’s 4.3 million overseas
Trouble sometimes brews for those citizens living under the coco trees, in the so-called ultra-peripheric regions of Europe too. In January and February for example, the French from Guadeloupe and Martinique went on strike against high prices, whilst African migrants boats continued to dock on Canarian ports, the Turks and Caicos prime minister resigned under allegations of corruption and Greenland voted for even more independance. When it’s so far away, Europe means something else
Martinique: European elections 'time to test the EU's social character'
Malik Duranty, a young politics graduate at the University of Guyana and the Caribbean, on how the first effects of the credit crunch are being felt as far as the remote regions of the EU, the insular and dependent localities. Extract
Greenland: Europe’s arctic window closes up
On 21 June, Greenland will become yet more independent with regard to Denmark. A new system voted via a referendum will give inhabitants the right to their own energy resources, concerning about thirty domains
The Bronx, another European overseas department
Well, almost. As the fountain on the north lawn of the White House ran green in celebration of St Patrick's Day on 17 March, we take a look at how newcomers from Europe have breathed new life into old ethnic neighbourhoods in New York’s five boroughs, long a destination for immigrations. With the EU at 27 and Brussels far across the ocean, is Europe but an abstract notion?
Islands: some drops of Europe in the ocean
Islands and archipelagos, Antarctic territories, lively societies and cultures across the equator. The regions at the far reaches of the EU are attached to the continent by legal texts. But identity is not defined on the basis of decree
