Europa

Report

‘I saw on TV how everyone was leaving Kosovo, so I went myself’

29 April 2015 -

Only recently the Balkans became a transit route, but migration is certainly not new to the region. For the last two decades, the Balkans were important countries of origin. Still, last year tens of thousands of Kosovars left their country in a time span of only few months. This migration wave stopped as suddenly as is has begun, and the reas ...

Report

Bulgaria: Exquisite back door to the Balkan

29 April 2015 -

Bulgaria does not exactly correspond to the image of a new life in Europe that refugees carry with them. But the country shares a border with Turkey, and is therefore an excellent loophole to avoid Greece on the way to Europe. The last two years the influx of refugees has tenfolded, an increase Bulgaria was not prepared for..

Report

MO*reporter undercover in human trafficking in Macedonia

28 April 2015 -

Macedonia is the link in the Balkan route which frightens migrants the most. The two hundred kilometres from the Greek border to Serbia are regarded as the most difficult. The migration routes through the country are almost completely controlled by criminal groups, while the government looks the other way. The biggest victims are the refugees, left ...

Report

Greece: The starting line

27 April 2015 -

The harsh stand on migration of the two previous governments in Greece and the festering economical crisis causes many migrants who have been living in the country for years to leave Greece behind. At the same time, Greece is a stop-over for mainly Syrian and Iraqi refugees on their way to Western Europe. And so, the small village of Idomeni became ...

Analysis

‘Europe, still one country ahead’

27 April 2015 -

When it comes to migration, all the eyes have been on the Mediterranean recently. The sheer scope of the human tragedies off the European coasts and the indifference of our continent are hard to grasp. But the sea isn't the only gateway to Europe. Thousands of people are making their way up north by land, across the Western Balkan.

Analysis

Cocaine trafficking across Europe in the age of technology

23 April 2015 -

With technology evolving rapidly, drug trafficking is set for the dawn of a new era. It is now possible to buy drugs online and have them delivered right to your doorstep just like any other product. How is this changing the relationship between drug suppliers and users? MO* looks at how cocaine dealers, users and law enforcement agencies are adapt ...

Analysis

Italian spyware and the demise of a Moroccan news site

1 April 2015 -

Western companies selling surveillance technology to law enforcement and intelligence services are on the rise. In 2012 the Moroccan news website Mamfakinch, founded to report on the Arab Spring protests, was targeted with spyware developed by an Italian company called Hacking Team. The attack proved to be the fatal blow to the site and its many co ...

Video

Saskia Sassen: 'We must become innovators'

14 March 2015 -

The current capitalist system is not fueled by money and consumption, instead it is fueled by financial speculation, according to Saskia Sassen, one of the top US political scientists. The current situation leaves us with dead land, dead water, and the massive expulsion of the common man. But it also offers us plenty of opportunities to start worki ...

Opinion

Are you Charlie?

9 January 2015 -

Our increasingly globalized world isn’t a happy place for everyone. The elites of the old West, Europe and the United States, are still in control. China, India, Brazil, and others are growing, but by and large global power relations are more or less the same as they have been since world war two. There is a pecking order. A division of labor ...

Interview

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 ...

News

European IMF directors protected the banks, but hit the Greeks

4 February 2014 -

MO* Magazine could seize a confidential document that shows the number of questions about the approach of the Greece debt crisis that lived within the IMF Executive Board.

News

The German Energiewende: It is our energy !

8 August 2013 -

Germany is undergoing an ambitious energy transition, or as they say in German: an Energiewende. While it's not certain that the country will meet its goals, many Germans are making their own efforts as the financial crisis fuels a desire to collaborate on producing renewable energy locally. Some, however, are critical of the increasing costs.