A recently published study from the European Parliament outlines the EU’s demographic future: in 2080, if current trends continue, the EU population will fall from the current 513 million people to 504 million, while flight from rural areas shows no sign of slowing.
The Monument to Italians Fallen in Africa at Syracuse (Sicily) was an initiative of Mussolini to celebrate fascist colonial ventures. It is emblematic of Italy’s and Europe’s unresolved relationship with its colonial past, an issue thrown back into the spotlight after the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in the United States. According to Somali-Italian writer Igiaba Scego, it is a wound that needs to be healed, starting with its symbols.
On 11 July 1995, more than 8300 Bosniak men and boys from the small town of Srebrenica, in today’s Republika Srpska, were slaughtered by the Bosnian Serb troops of Ratko Mladić. A quarter century after, Europe must give life and effect to the responsibility to protect, a part of its mission in the world that must never be abandoned, says Roger Casale.
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