“Be the change you wish to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi

By Marina Mantay

Tradition, Identity and Future

Basic Issues concerning a European Cultural Policy

DORIS PACK

The focus on economic policy issues has for a very long time pushed culture, as the basis of the European idea, into the…

“My Culture, Your Politics” Introduction, Self-Reflection and Questions

Satu Kuitunen

European Empire?

Péter Techet

In summer 2016, an article appeared in The New York Times, the author was a…

Our Europe

The Task — Building Europe from the Bottom Up

BERNHARD SCHNEIDER

The EU as a Scapegoat

The question is on the table as to what legitimation and which forms of cohabitation will keep the European Union…

The European Union: When Diversity Trumps Unity

STEVE GREEN

The result of the referendum in the UK in June 2016 on European Union membership has opened a Pandora’s Box of soul searching. A bubble has been burst; it is an open day for critical analysis. The European…

The Battle for Europe: What can Culture do?

André Wilkens

European Republic Needed

ULRIKE GUÉROT

Brexit happened, but Brussels seems to be unwilling to face the tough questions. No compromise, no pick and choose for the UK, and no need to reform. The EU stays as it is and anyone who does not accept this is wrong and thrown out. It’s a huge…

Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture and how to manage it

Three Crucial Questions About Europe

WIM WENDERS

• Question: Art has always acted internationally. Music and painting, photography and film, dance and architecture — even literature — are ideal ways of communication among people and cultures. At the same time, art is headstrong…