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Time to tackle the postgraduate funding problem

Employers increasingly desire postgraduate level skills – evidenced by the widening 'postgraduate/first degree only' wage gap – and so should everybody else, says Tom Frostick

» United Kingdom feature

Turkish population pulled between west and religious doctrine

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Young people see themselves entrapped between western modernity and Recep Tayyip Erdogan's neo-Islamic and rather authoritarian policy – writes Professor Vassilis K. Fouskas

» Belgium analysis

'We must defend the EU budget' - says commissioner

Rafa Sanudo cartoon - EU budget
Only the EU budget provides investment opportunities and we must protect it for 500 million Europeans, 20 million SMEs, 100 million students and tens of thousands of researchers – argues European Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski

» Poland feature

Claims EU is 'breathing life' into economy despite crisis

European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn offers an insight into how investment in cohesion policy is helping to weather the crisis and boost economic growth

» Austria feature

It is 'fantasy' to think Britain can go it alone outside the EU

UK cannot go it alone in a globalised world and the cost of EU membership is 'marginal' when compared to £700bn annual government spend – argues former minister and erstwhile BP chief executive Lord Simon

» United Kingdom analysis

The tragedy of malnutrition among children

Although child mortality is declining in developing countries, many young people are too unhealthy and badly educated to enter the workplace – argue Liam Crosby and Frazer Goodwin

» Belgium feature

Even Europhiles starting to turn against the EU project

When College of Europe graduates - traditionally the most loyal of all Europhiles - start to turn against Brussels you know the project is coming off the rails, writes Justin Stares

» Belgium news

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