History, Society & Culture

Europe in a library

The initiative “Europeana” is a project of the European Union designed to make accessible online the European cultural and scientific heritage. It includes a library, an archive and a digital museum. More than 6 milions digital items are planned to be available online thanks to the cooperation (...)

Wednesday 28 January 2009

The Road to Europe

Sixty years have now passed since the 1948Congress of Europe began the process which eventually led to the birth of the quasi-federalist European Union, yet despite having its own governmental institutions, including a directly-elected parliament, and despite the introduction of a common EU (...)

Monday 5 January 2009

Bronislaw Geremek’s death saddens European family

By listening to this grand man speak one didn’t have so much the impression of being in front of a Pole but rather to be in the company of a true European. This affiliation to the general European interest which characterised him was one of the things that made him a likely candidate to occupy (...)

Tuesday 15 July 2008

The Fall of the Soviet Union and Reunification of Europe

In April 1986, Mr. Gorbachev began the perestroïka which was to end the Cold War that brought down the Iron Curtain. This separation between West and East not only partitioned the world into two parts, but also divided the European family for over 40 years. The reforms, called “reconstruction” (...)

Tuesday 6 May 2008
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