In Italy, 69 percent of those polled agreed that “immigrants are a burden because they take jobs and social benefits.” In Greece, 70 percent thought that.
And poll numbers from the Pew Research Center shows that it’s not just the radical right that takes issue with current immigration policy. Though it’s not the only issue at stake, immigration is more than a blip on Europe’s political radar right now. Read OZY’s profile of Schulz on the eve of his re-election here.
If he gets his agenda through, it could presage a permanent shift of power away from individual, national governments to the European parliament, which would turn the EU from an association of sovereign states into one supranational state, with possible consequences for everything from tax policy and European defense to the global balance of power. As president of the European parliament, he’s changing the balance of power between the European institutions for good. On the other side of the spectrum, politically, is Martin Schulz, who would just love to see the United States of Europe become one clear, coherent body. The argument goes that European politics has become too big, too bossy, too interfering. And Elsässer, a self-proclaimed leftist, is where Europe’s extreme right and extreme left converge, in common distaste of “the common project” - as British Prime Minister David Cameron put it. Many Europeans resent efforts to further erase national identities, integrate the continent and pass greater powers to the European Union. He’s a troublemaker and skeptic of mainstream European politics whose voice is getting louder and louder in Germany, and starting to reverberate across the continent. Meet the 57-year-old journalist and activist from Brandenburg, Germany, who is making life a helluva time for Russia. Jürgen Elsässer, Germany’s Loudest Troublemaker “And yes, it’s a little dangerous, but I’m pretty sure that’s where the ‘thrill’ part comes in.” Posted in PDB Email Featured Article Tagged SPORTS Leave a Comment on LaFaye Baker + Stunts Most Extreme The New Europe Like she’s talking about something really easy and not dangerous at all. Which we can well appreciate, even if the closest we want to get to a 200-foot dead drop is our remote controls. I’d laugh and tell them that I was the stuntwoman and they’d be embarrassed and apologize, but my idea then was like now: Get more people like me doing what I am doing.” They’d assume I was an extra or some bit player. “You know sometimes it used to happen that it would be assumed that I was in the wrong place when I was on-set. “Because I did it, and I didn’t do anything that would make it hard to look at myself in the mirror for: I graduated from college, I had a serious career outside of it as well, and I’m still working.” “It’s all just a great way to say that this can be done,” Baker says, referring to her long and non-standard career in Hollywood. More than a few of the Diamond in the RAW grads are taking steps into the industry, some working in post-production editing, one as a correspondent at an NBC affiliate in Reno, Nev., and a few more as camera operators. Meanwhile, Baker, a primary organizer, readies herself for this October’s 7th Action Icon Awards honoring celebrity stuntwomen. It’s a perspective that sees serious potential in the Hollywood that her own parents initially thought was just a waste of her time. But her day job as a probation officer has given her many a “there but for the grace of God go I” moments. Baker turns their attention to work behind the camera, in the hopes that the 20 to 30 girls finishing her program annually will directly address the industry’s continued race and gender imbalances.īaker, the only child of an educator mother and a realtor father, never wanted for anything herself as a youngster, enjoying years of ice-skating lessons and gymnastics and even child acting jobs.
Which started Baker thinking very seriously about her next steps.Įnter Diamond in the RAW, a nonprofit designed in 2008 by Baker to prime the Hollywood pump with at-risk teen girls, a population that often harbors a misplaced interest in life in front of the camera. Mostly because of audiences’ hunger to see MORE, but also because it’s the nature of the entertainment beast to feed on surprise and thrill. With directors under pressure to stay on schedule, get shots and move the production along, the stakes are always high and the jobs don’t get any easier. …at-risk teen girls, a population that often harbors a misplaced interest in life in front of the camera.
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