Interview

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Amartya Sen on elections, communal politics and inequality in India

8 April 2014 -

There is no lack of famous Indians, but few of the more than 1.2 billion Indians will come close to the global renown and respect of Amartya Sen, Nobelprize for Economy in 1998 and author of numerous books on economy, development, identity and justice. Sen has been living and working in the West for decades, but he is looking forward to being part ...

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India organizes the real Mother of all Elections

7 April 2014 -

The 7th of April is the starting day of the parliamentary elections in India, the results of which will be available on the 16th of May.Manjeev Singh Puri, India’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU, will guide us through the peculiarities of t ...

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Ilkka Salmi, the EU’s spymaster

4 March 2014 -

Information on the latest developments in Ukraine is of utmost importance for European policy makers. A crucial player in this field is the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre (INTCEN), the EU’s own intelligence hub in Brussels. Director Ilkka Salmi: ‘Our reporting helps the European External Action Service and other European institutions t ...

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‘Not putting things into your computer is a very effective tool’

3 February 2014 -

When the world’s most powerful man asks your personal advice on one of the most sensitive geopolitical topics, it’s fair to say you are influential. Together with four other Americans, privacy expert Peter Swire was tasked by president Obama to write a review on NSA reform. ‘Of the 46 recommendations we made, 70 percent has ...

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Amiri Baraka: Poetry for the 99%

27 March 2012 -

Considered one of the big names in contemporary American literature, he became famous in the sixties as an avant-garde poet in New York and is now on the barricades alongside the Occupy movement. A portrait of Amiri Baraka, eternal revolutionary.

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Interview with Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda

26 January 2011 -

The Rwandese president Paul Kagame came to Belgium early December 2010 in the framework of the European Development Days. His visit was anything but uneventful: several braved the bitter cold and snow to express their anger or support for him. Kagame addressed 2400 Rwandan from the diaspora in Europe, but did not meet with king Albert II, nor ...