Martinique
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
martinique, island, union européenne, overseas, society, guadeloupe
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
martinique, identité européene, strike, identity, society, guadeloupe
Island fever: Martinique and Guadeloupe’s 'people are suffocating'
The fuse lit in Guadeloupe in reaction to high living costs and an alienating 'cultural integration' has ignited Martinique. Could French Guiana in South America and La Réunion in the Indian Ocean follow, before the flames reach mainland France? Opinion from a young Martinican
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