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Before the Rubicon: Southern Europe, the Iran War and the logic of hegemony
Europe, neighboring the Middle East, was not asked. It was not called, not consulted. The operations were decided in circles of power from which Europe was absent — and their consequences, the waves of instability — it will be Europe that is called to manage them. Rubicons, however, are never announced; they are recognized only after they have already been crossed. And when that moment comes, there will be no 'protocol' left to invoke, because we will have helped erode it ourselves.
Written by aspiring journalists
Spotify ‘in love’ with AI, promotes playlists for passive listening. What’s behind it?
Spotify appears to have targeted genres particularly suited to passive listening. It identified contexts in which listeners use playlists mainly as background music. The core PFC genres were ambient, classical, electronic and jazz. When some employees raised concerns, Spotify executives reportedly responded that listeners “wouldn’t notice the difference".
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Spotify ‘in love’ with AI, promotes playlists for passive listening. What’s behind it?
Spotify appears to have targeted genres particularly suited to passive listening. It identified contexts in which listeners use playlists mainly as background music. The core PFC genres were ambient, classical, electronic and jazz. When some employees raised concerns, Spotify executives reportedly responded that listeners “wouldn’t notice the difference".
Decolonising Language: How Words Shape Power, Identity, and Freedom
Language is never neutral. Everyday terms like “Middle East,” “Third World,” and “ethnic” still echo colonial perspectives that place Europe at the centre and cast other cultures as the “other.” Decolonising language means recognising these hidden power structures and rethinking the words that shape how we see the world.
Génération IA: Menace ou Tremplin pour les Jeunes Européens?
Listen to the newest podcast by our journalist, Zeynep Citil, interviewing Julian Blum, a specialist in international relations and strategic affairs. [French]
Spotify ‘in love’ with AI, promotes playlists for passive listening. What’s behind it?
Spotify appears to have targeted genres particularly suited to passive listening. It identified contexts in which listeners use playlists mainly as background music. The core PFC genres were ambient, classical, electronic and jazz. When some employees raised concerns, Spotify executives reportedly responded that listeners “wouldn’t notice the difference".
Why are young people turning to extremist parties?
In this PulseZ episode, political scientist George Jiglău speaks about youth voting, the rise of extremism, and how trust in politics can be rebuilt.
Two EU countries still deny women the right to choose
If you zoom out and look at the European Union as a whole, you’d expect women’s rights to sit at the core of “European values”—and yet two EU countries still deny women the right to choose. What looks like a settled principle on paper becomes, in practice, a fault line.
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