For decades, some countries have been asking for the return of their stolen artworks: Greece and Nigeria from the British Museum, Egypt from the Louvre, Benin from the Quai Branly museum in Paris, to name a few. The lending of artworks isn’t a new phenomenom and it has even allowed some artworks (…)
Wednesday 29 May 2019
It is sad to notice how Italy’s Liberation Day of 25 April became a divisive issue, and that even political parties somehow still debate on it, forgetting the values and principles of the Constitution which they swear they will be loyal to. The recollection of the tragedies and mistakes of the (…)
Sunday 19 May 2019
In celebration of the Schuman Declaration of 1950, 9 May marks Europe Day. The speech by the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman launched the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, the first step in the European project as we know it – or in Robert Schuman’s words, “the first (…)
Thursday 9 May 2019
Diego Marani is an Italian novellist, translator, and newspaper columnist. In 1996 he invented Europanto, a mock international auxiliary language published in several Belgian and French newspapers. After being responsible for the European multilingualism policy for almost nine years, he is now (…)
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Identities contain, by definition, multiple layers and facets. So can European citizens curate and maintain a dualistic identity of both national and European levels? How are they different and how are they the same? Let us look at how national identities are constructed and for what reasons, to (…)
Friday 3 May 2019
The world-famous Notre-Dame Cathedral was in flames in Paris yesterday, and centuries of cultural heritage are devastated. The chief editors of The New Federalist, Treffpunkt Europa and Le Taurillon, all of whom live or have lived in Paris, share their thoughts on the fire. The New Federalist’s (…)
Tuesday 16 April 2019
The Eurosceptic drums of Farage, Salvini, Orban, Le Pen or Kaczynski beat very specific, locally-tuned rhythms, but they all have the same chorus – foreigners, get out!
Tuesday 9 April 2019
In Chinese they are called huayi. Their parents are called huaqiao. The majority of them are between 20 and 35 years old. In Spain their identity still remains unclear. Our author Paloma Chen reports on the Chinese diaspora in Spain. After part one and part two, she now shares her interview (…)
Saturday 2 March 2019
In Chinese they are called huayi. Their parents are called huaqiao. The majority of them are between 20 and 35 years old. In Spain their identity still remains unclear.
Friday 1 March 2019
A red thread of violence has always characterised Europe, ever since Titian’s 1560-1562 “Rape of Europa” painting up until today’s Europe. This distressing metaphor has cast its shadow on Europe throughout time, becoming a painful and immortal symbol. This article is not an analysis, but a crude (…)
Saturday 23 February 2019
Saturday 16 February 2019
The last EU budget has extensively supported younger people. But Veronika Snoj asks, who has been thinking of the generation of our parents?
Sunday 3 February 2019
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