Magazine / History / European Identity / From the press | 22/03/2007

Europe's ability to be self-critical

Street parties, conferences and a Berlin declaration - The EU is making a jubilee out of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome. But do the citizens of the 27 member states identify with today's European Union?

Dossier

Main focus of Friday, 16. March 2007

Europe on the eve of its 50th birthday

On March 25th, Europe will be celebrating the anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaty, a founding act of the European Union. As commemorations ... » more

Main focus of Tuesday, 9. May 2006

Europe in a celebratory mood?

The Day of Europe being celebrated this May 9 provides numerous newspapers with an opportunity to comment on and analyse the European Union's future. Many ... » more

EU-Birthday

The Independent - United Kingdom | Wednesday, 21. March 2007

Fifty reasons to love the EU

The British daily's front page features a list of "50 reasons to love the EU" and also focuses on the reasons for celebration around the ... » more

Dagens Nyheter - Sweden | Wednesday, 14. March 2007

A review of 50 years of Europe

The approach of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome on March 25 prompts the newspaper to review the situation in ... » more

Népszabadság - Hungary | Tuesday, 13. June 2006

50 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome: A cause for celebration?

2007 is the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome. Brussels correspondent Laszlo Szöcs writes that Brussels hopes to bury the memory ... » more

A european history book?

Delo - Slovenia | Tuesday, 20. March 2007

A common European history textbook?

The president of the Slovenian Association of History Teachers, Andreja Valic Zupan, considers the idea of a common European history book and remarks critically: "In ... » more

Pravda - Slovakia | Wednesday, 28. February 2007

A European history textbook

The German EU presidency plans to propose the compilation of a pan-European history textbook at an EU education ministers' conference on Thursday and Friday. In ... » more

Postimees - Estonia | Wednesday, 7. March 2007

Erkki Bahovski on the idea of a common history book for the EU

German Minister of Education Annette Schavan has proposed the publication of a pan-European history textbook. Erkki Bahovski considers this to be a good but unrealistic ... » more

Diena - Latvia | Thursday, 8. June 2006

Sandra Kalniete calls for a unified European view of history

Former Latvian Foreign Minister Sandra Kalniete argues that Europe must agree on a unified conception of history. Kalniete recently triggered an outburst of indignation by ... » more

European identity

Prospect - United Kingdom | Tuesday, 30. January 2007

Timothy Garton Ash loves Europe

The British historian and political writer Timothy Garton Ash considers in an essay published in the monthly that the EU has "lost the plot" and ... » more

Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Switzerland | Wednesday, 7. March 2007

Georg Kreis on the colonial interests behind the Treaty of Rome

The historian Georg Kreis points out that four of the six parties that signed the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which laid the foundation for the ... » more

Foreign Policy Edición Española - Spain | Friday, 9. February 2007

José Ignacio Torreblanca wants to build Europe inside out

As the EU prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the Spanish political scientist José Ignacio Torreblanca wonders ... » more

Die Zeit - Germany | Thursday, 8. February 2007

Robert Menasse on Europe's propensity to self-criticism

Austrian author and essayist Robert Menasse writes that it was only through living in Latin America that he became aware he was a European. "My ... » more

Prospect - United Kingdom | Wednesday, 31. January 2007

Francis Fukuyama on the absence of collective identity in modern liberal democracies

Francis Fukuyama, professor of politics and economics, ponders the "weak collective identites" of modern liberal societies facing "people who are more sure of who they ... » more

Der Tagesspiegel - Germany | Wednesday, 17. January 2007

Ilija Trojanow on cultural difference as a happy state of nature

Writer Ilija Trojanow is to receive the Berlin Literature Prize today. In an interview with Andreas Schäfer, he discusses the success of his new book. ... » more

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Germany | Monday, 15. January 2007

Josef Isensee approves of the EU's distance from the people

In an essay on Western Europe, jurist Josef Isensee concludes that the EU remains primarily an administrative union, despite the longing for a common identity. ... » more

Le Soir - Belgium | Tuesday, 2. January 2007

Régis Debray on the end of the European dream

In his work 'Aveuglantes Lumières' ('Blinding Enlightenment'), the French philosopher Régis Debray does away with some of the founding concepts of 18th century European thinking. ... » more

Gazeta Wyborcza - Poland | Saturday, 9. December 2006

Juri Andruchowytsch on the subjective Europe

The paper reprints a speech on European borders which Ukrainian writer Juri Andruchowytsch delivered in late November, at a conference in Kiev. "Europe is also ... » more

Merkur - Germany | Tuesday, 5. December 2006

Wolf Dieter Enkelmann on the eccentricity of Europeans

Wolf Dieter Enkelmann, Director of the Munich Institute for Economic Planning, considers what Europe represents: "Europeans are eccentric. It's clearly evidenced through world history. But ... » more

Le Figaro - France | Tuesday, 14. November 2006

Pascal Bruckner on historical memory

In an interview conducted by Marie-Laure Germon and Stéphane Marchand, the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner debates with the historian Benjamin Stora on the way countries ... » more

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger - Germany | Wednesday, 8. November 2006

Enlargement and European identity

The renowned German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has complained in a speech about the faltering process of European integration. He points out the following to those ... » more

Télérama - France | Saturday, 4. November 2006

Michael Winock defends the European cause

In an interview with Gilles Heuré, the French historian Michel Wincock regrets how little intellectuals are committed to Europe. "Europe was championed in the 19th ... » more

Le Nouvel Observateur - France | Thursday, 2. November 2006

Karol Modzelewski on the barbaric roots of Europe

"My position as an historian with an East-European sensibility allows me a different approach to the history of barbaric Europe and helps me avoid falling ... » more

Gazeta Wyborcza - Poland | Tuesday, 9. May 2006

That dump called Europe

Aleksander Kaczorowski writes enthusiastically about the anthology "Last & Lost. An atlas of disappearing Europe", in which writers describe their quest for the lost and ... » more

Libération - France | Monday, 27. March 2006

Mobility strengthens European citizenship

"Migrants have a much better image of Europe," observes Italian sociologist Ettore Recchi, the coordinator of 'Pioneur', a European research project on mobility in the ... » more

Die Welt - Germany | Monday, 13. March 2006

Geert Mak on European identity

Dutch author Geert Mak explains in an interview led by Jan Kanter that "the Christian world and its values, expanded by the Renaissance and the ... » more

Les Echos - France | Monday, 6. February 2006

What does Europe 'sound' like?

The EU's Austrian presidency recently organised a conference in Salzburg entitled, 'The Sound of Europe'. "What form should this 'sound' take?", wonders the French political analyst, Dominique ... » more

Le Monde - France | Friday, 3. February 2006

Europe revisits its past in order to forge its future

"At a moment when a crisis-plagued Europe is nervously wondering about its future, here we see it eagerly returning to its past, as if it ... » more

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Germany | Tuesday, 4. April 2006

Andrzej Stasiuk on the West's indifference towards Eastern Europe

Disappointed with the lack of Western support for the opposition in Belarus, Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk harshly criticises Western Europeans for their indifference towards the ... » more

Further articles on the subject » History, » Europe
More from the press review on the subject » History, » Europe