What to do with Greece?
Wolfgang Ischinger just proposed that “we should go there to hold a speech to Greece not only in order to tell them what they have to do but to tell them that we love them.” “Emotional elemtents are...
View ArticleThe courage of thinking big
The European integration has always had two faces. The first one based on the institutional, economic and legal convergence, and the other being more social, being expressed in the motions of European...
View ArticleGlobal Challenges as the Motivation for deeper European Integration?
European integration has been in most cases positive for the European people. Nevertheless, Europe is no political pop star. In the past decades it was the prospect of peace that legitimised...
View ArticleClosing of the Symposium
The three “founding fathers” of the Dahrendorf Symposium, Damian Chalmers, LSE, Helmut Anheier, Hertie School, and Bernhard Lorentz, Stiftung Mercator have just closed the symposium! Chalmers...
View ArticleIs Europe forgetting its social problems with regard to minorities?
Is a cold wind blowing in Europe, when it comes to its minorities? Participants agreed at last week’s panel on “Europe as a social space” at the Dahrendorf Symposium in Berlin: “We witness a decline of...
View ArticleThe unfair evaluation of Europe’s common foreign policy
From down-to-earth social problems, the Dahrendorf Symposium, held last week in Berlin, took a lift to the atmospheric altitude of Europe’s foreign policy. Discussing first “Europe as a social space”,...
View ArticleProject Bonds or Declarations of Love? How to Stop Hate Speech in the...
Eurobonds, common debts to be guaranteed by all European countries but spent nationally, are anathema to the German public and German politicians. So it was kind of a surprise hearing Werner Hoyer,...
View ArticleNo fiscal federalism without community building
European officials are seeking to solve the grand design failure of the Euro-Zone by constructing a major facade right on top of the gaping fault line. From a sociological viewpoint, the main defect of...
View ArticleUtopia remains close, but far, after the Dahrendorf Symposium
Eleven panels, roundtables and keynote speeches brought together 53 participants (though the real number is actually slightly lower, as some speakers appeared more than once on the podium) from...
View ArticleTransformative Power of Europe reloaded, abandon the bridge too far and Many...
Our Symposium has assumed the role of ‘changing the debate’ on Europe. The main rationale behind this is that the reality has moved at a faster pace than our discourse on Europe. We must catch up: but...
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