Category: NOrdinary
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Is Germany’s victory Europe’s victory? Our continent celebrates their triumph in Brazil
Last Sunday, Germany won the 2014 edition of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, beating Argentina 1-0. It is not only Germans that are celebrating.
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Urban summer, the European trend
Artificial urban beaches, volleyball playgrounds, music festivals or Berliner rooftop parties are just some of the alternatives inland European capital cities can offer in the summertime.
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Turkish and European working cultures, less different than you expect
Daniele Volante is a 27-year-old Italian architect who has fallen in love with Turkey, after doing his final University project in Istanbul and eventually looking for a job in the Turkish megacity.
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Britain and UKIP: Countering lies with humour and common sense
Either you hate them or you love them. UKIP’s European election campaign posters have sparked a lot of controversy, but there is nothing that a healthy dose of British humour cannot solve.
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20 ways to tear Europe apart
For such a small continent, Europe is home to a huge number of differences and stereotypes. Bulgarian artist Yanko Tsvetkov shows them all in a series of 20 maps, representing different ways in which Europe can be sliced.
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Rock the Union, a social pulse meter towards EU Parliament elections
Hans Mund is a German 29-year-old communications analyst based in Brussels. He defines himself as a “creative solution finder” and has founded Rock the Union.
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The extraordinary in the ordinary
Multistory and Magnum Photos have launched, in cooperation with nine British cultural institutions, the Open for Business project through which they aim to approach the contemporary world of manufacturing from a different angle.
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The New Europe starts with Education
What should the relationship be between the state and education? What constitutes a citizen? In its own small way, the Lycée Averroès in the French city of Lille is slowly trying to give its personal answer.
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For immigration trust the film directors.
Films tell us more about immigration that any news channel, from Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant (1917), Lamerica (1995), to Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland (2011).
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European Borderlines
Reinis Hofmanis, in his work “Territory”, takes us into a new dimension, somewhere between the thin borders of private and public space.