This report presents the reflections and findings of a group of young professionals and students – the Danube Foundation – who have been in search for shared stories of Europe. Their projectUtopia: European Vistas has been supported by ECF.
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Protesting is considered a very European thing to do. … But European strikes are almost always about money. … But meanwhile in a little known corner of Europe there is a less mercenary struggle taking place – one that is closer to the spirit of Tahrir Square than Syntagma Square.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Paul Scheffer
In this essay, Paul Scheffer discusses the waning of the European powers at the expense of new economies like Brazil, India, and China, and raises the question how Europe manages to deal with this change. He argues the perception of Europe in the new economies will acquire ever greater significance for European societies. This, according to Scheffer, presents an invitation to write history in a new way.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Ranabir Samaddar
Comments by an Indian on the poser “Dwarfing of Europe?...”
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Cristina Pecequilo
Problems such as unemployment, low salaries, loss of economic competitiveness, social tensions let to the definition of this period as the one of a new depression, part of a broader structural change in the world ́s balance of power. These trends were representative of change in Western societies, that seemed to reach the limits of their development and dynamism, which was being expressed by popular protests and the loss of international projection.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Fokke Obbema
What can we learn from China?
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Karine Lisbonne-de Vergeron
Karine Lisbonne speaks at the Dwarfing of Europe event in Amsterdam
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Renée Jones-Bos
Renée Jones-Bos took up her position as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 July 2012. From 2008 to 2012 she was Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States of America.
Read MoreDwarfing of Europe? Vol. 2 - A dialogue between Brazil, India, China and Europe
In this second of the series Dwarfing of Europe? publication, we turn to the so-called ‘emerging economies’. At a time when the European Union – and indeed the whole continent – is going through an identity crisis that goes much deeper than the financial crisis, Europe can no longer reflect on itself just by looking inwards. This collection of essays sheds new light on Europe’s many dilemmas and, by broadening the debate, encourages new understanding of the fundamental issues underlying these dilemmas.
Read MoreThe Dwarfing of Europe? Vol. 1 - Perspectives from the Balkans, Belarus, the Middle East and Asia
In this first of the series Dwarfing of Europe? publication, we turn to our neighbours for an honest view of Europe from the outside in order to boost and broaden the debate on Europe by focusing on culture.
Read MoreImagining Europe with De Groene Amsterdammer
Imagining Europe
In the frame of the Imagining Europe event that took place on 4–7 October 2012 at De Balie in Amsterdam, weekly magazine DE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER in close editorial collaboration with ECF has published a special supplement including articles from Amitav Ghosh, Iryna Videnava, Erdal Balci, Philip Legrain and more...
Narratives for Europe: Reading Room - Is the EU Killing Europe?
This report presents the reflections and findings of a group of young professionals and students – the Danube Foundation – who have been in search for shared stories of Europe. Their projectUtopia: European Vistas has been supported by ECF.
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