The number of elderly people in the world, particularly in Europe, increases quickly.
The ageing of the population is by now an international phenomenon, with all the problems connected to this increase: healthcare system, help to the workforce, an active and prepared social system.
Nowadays people with more than 65 years old represent around 17 % of the European population, with Italy, Germany and Greece on the top, and it is expected to be the 45 % within 2050.

This new public event organized by European Alternatives will take place in the meeting room of the Feltrinelli International Bookshop and will be dedicated to Transeuropa, European Alternatives’ Festival.

The Roma are an integral part of Europe since thousands of years, nowadays a rough estimate of 10-12 million people; the largest ethnic minority present in all 27 states, in many of whom are recorded episodes of major violence and intolerance, which increase day-by-day.

Silvio Berlusconi has expressed his hope to bring Israel into the EU for “the Judeo-Chrisitan culture is the basis for European culture”. If Turkey and Israel become EU members a truly unified foreign policy will remain a dream and Europe will not be able to play an important role in the international scenario.

The cradle of nationalism, Europe can be a laboratory for rethinking cultural diversity in a global denationalized world: this is the challenge to intellectuals in Europe.

This interactive, dynamic debate takes place in the context of rising concern about climate change, and takes place just before the crucial meeting at Copenhagen of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The European Union agreed to set aside up to 15 billion euros per year to facilitate a green transition in developing countries. However, no agreement was reached on actually how to spend the money. The EU needs to stop bickering, stop prioritising the competitiveness of its companies, and stand up to its claims of global leadership on fighting climate change.

The Young European Federalists (JEF) announced new campaign actions against the EU’s visa regime towards other Europeans at their Congress in Florence this week-end. The actions will coincide with the 9th November 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The idea of Europe can only be the universal, which itself is a negation of all European ‘particularity’. In this apparent paradox contemporary Europe can find its historic mission as a transnational force in a nationalist world.

At least one of the two top posts in post-Lisbon Europe looks set to go to a Brit. But what effect will this have on the pro-Europeanism in the UK? Does it still exist?

Fashionable words come and go, but unfashionable ones just go. In Britain the word ‘pro-European’ – always a pariah word in the UK press and rightwing circles – shrivelled up and died a death early in this decade, with no-one but the small Liberal Democrat party to nurture it.