London Festival of Europe

Coming in March 2007. The London Festival of Europe is an annual two-week series of events engaging with contemporary European politics, society and cultures. It promotes public discussion of European issues and celebrates cultural exchange.

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European Artists’ Congress

A two-day Congress to reason on the role and responsibility of contemporary European creators

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European Alternatives is a civil society organisation dedicated to promoting intellectual engagement with the idea and future of Europe. It publishes a regular journal, EUROPA, and organises several events including the yearly London Festival of Europe.

Etienne Balibar's Europe

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

MAKING THE PLANET HOSPITABLE TO EUROPE

The opening lecture of the London Festival of Europe 2007

Zygmunt Bauman

The ‘Heterogeneous Identity’ of Europeans

Marc Crépon
The attempt to define the identity of Europeans once and for all is misplaced and dangerous, as is the attempt to instrumentalise Europe ;

More than just a social model: reform and social justice

The European social model works, and can be made to work even better.

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’

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 ...

Interview with Gianni Vattimo

EUROPA meets with Gianni Vattimo, one of Europe’s leading philosophers whose numerous publications include The Transparent Society, The End of Modernity, and On Belief...

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.

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...

Globalisation demands a more political and more democratic Europe

John Palmer: Only by embracing a European dimension will national political parties be able to regenerate in the era of globalization.

Danilo Zolo

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

All the Presidents

In 2009 each of the three Presidents of the European Union will be
re-elected, though each in different ways…

Brendan Donnelly

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.

Living Life in a Languge

Adrian Grima

Every language is the product of a unique historical experience. Languages are not interchangeable, none is dispensable, none is superfluous.

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...