Samuel Huntington

Samuel Huntington since 1989 the clash between civilizations has been essentially cultural, rather than economic or political

Brussels, the capital of the European Union, has been under the spotlight last week because of the NATO Heads of State meeting. The meeting was not fully an official NATO summit in real terms but has nevertheless been an important episode in the history of the Alliance.

Plagiarism in Croatia's academic community is not being dealt with and punished because fellow academics "turn a blind eye" to their colleague's misdeeds and damage the image of the community as a whole, Tomislav Pletenac, a professor of ethnology and cultural anthropology at Zagreb's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences told BIRN.

The German authorities have banned the carrying of posters that had cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad at the Leipzig rally organized by the fanatical anti-Islam PEGIDA movement.

Isn't this a restriction of freedom of expression? Leipzig German authorities explained it as such: "We think that, after the Paris incidents, these caricatures will be tools for provocation."