Positive Immigration Policy...

The French Presidency of the EU is committed to securing a European Pact on Immigration. We must insist that European cooperation is not limited to exclusion......

China, One Way to Modernity

In recent media coverage on Tibet the western discourse of human rights is pitted against a monstrous Chinese power aiming to exploit Tibet’s economic potential and erase local customs. But this is to forget our own road to modernity.

Notes for a transnational practice

Lorenzo Marselli

There seems to be a fundamental paradox in the current dialectic of globalisation...

A Letter from Poland :The Same Europe, the Other Hate?

With the spectre of homophobia and anti-feminism ever-present in Eastern Europe, artists and young activists are becoming...

Fronteres y apartheid;
Two exhibitions pour epater les Europeens

Exhibitions held at Barcelona’s Centro de Cultural Contemporanea a bitter warning for the Europeans of today...

Europe and China: A Synphony of Civilisation

David Gosset, Director of the Academia Sinica Europaea in Shanghai, explains why Europe and China are particularly.....

A European route to une nouvelle gauche Française ?

Thomas Ferenczi
After the defeat of Segolène Pruvot, the French Left should resolve its internal conflict about Europe.

From Words to Fact:
A New Party for Spain

Fernando Savater
The newly founded UPD party attempts to address the excesses of “regionalism” in Spanish politics and to reclaim the equality ....

Italy’s Partito Democratico: Three Million Votes and Three Questions

The merger of Italy’s two largest left-of-centre political parties aspires to revolutionise the stiff and fragmented Italian landscape....

"There is a disastreous collective inability in Europe to imagine alternative
policies and forms of politics"

- Etienne Balibar

European Alternatives publishes a regular paper of European thought
posted free of charge to all our members

It features essays and opinion pieces, articles on the political life of
European countries and the Union as a whole, and a lively selection
of reviews and cultural pieces.

Etienne Balibar's Europe

Etienne Balibar presents twelve thesis for a radically re-worked understanding of Europe’s responsibilities in the world.

Europe, the UK and Catch 22 Democracy

Niccoló Milanese

Whilst the debate over the EU Reform Treaty grows ever more trivial in the UK, and each side makes appeals to ‘democracy’...

Where are all the European Feminists?

Every European government and institution is committed to equality, but yet discrimination remains. European Alternatives launches its Future of European Feminism...

Engagement and the Arts
in Europe

As artists, writers and musicians come to London for a Cultural Congress as part of the Festival of Europe, what is the relationship between the arts and engagement in Europe?

Interview with Furio Colombo

Furio Colombo, currently Senator in the Italian Parliament, is former editor-in-chief of daily L’Unita, former Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, former correspondent for La Stampa and La Repubblica from the USA, and professor of journalism at Columbia...

For a Euro-Mediterranean community

Nicholas Sarkozy is championing the project of a new Euro-Mediterranean Union. But the idea will only succeed provided we learn from our mistakes
and raise our ambitions.

European Elections for a European President!

Speculation about who might be the first permanent President of the European Council manifests a desire for a European figurehead. If there is to be a European...

Magris Interview

Claudio Magris, author of many works of fiction, editorialist at Corriere della Sera and professor of German literature in Trieste meets Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director at the Serpentine Gallery.

When Europe Catches a Cold...

Stella Tang

The recent Italian elections take the temperature of the current political dialectic in Europe......

Gender Equality

Gender equality in Europe is about more than statistics. It is about changing perceptions and stereotypes. This article follows the International Feminist Summit recently organised by European Alternatives in London.

Manchev-London-Theses

A European Cultural Movement must open the way for new modes of life in Europe and act as an alternative to the market.

Danilo Zolo

An interview with Danilo Zolo, Italian philosopher and co-editor of the important volume “Alternativa Mediterranea”.