We always assumed European unity would imply greater cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism, but that may not be the case.
Lorenzo Marsili
Marsili is also the co-president of the European Media Initiative, an international campaign demanding better protection for media freedom at European... level. Together with Yanis Varoufakis he is one of the initiators of DiEM25. His latest book, Planetary Politics, is published by Polity Press.
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