Collection(s) : Cordouan
Paru le 06/06/2014 | Broché 118 pages
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foreword by Michel Barnier | english translation : Jane Corrigan
The work
The crisis faced by the European project today is above all a crisis of meaning. After the disappearance of the narratives about peace and prosperity, the reason for Europe is now the one given by millions of Europeans. Together we must therefore explore a Europe whose institutions are a means but not an end, remain open to discovery, attentive to stories and critical of common ideas.
This six-month journey is dotted with eleven stops, eleven letters from eleven cities in nine European countries, from Russia to Sweden, Portugal to Bulgaria. They give rise to eleven debates on major issues such as defence, youth, the wounds of the past and solidarity, all of which are explored via the stories of dozens of Europeans met along the way.
Philippe Perchoc is a researcher at Université catholique de Louvain and teaches at Sciences Po Paris and at the College of Europe. For two years, he has been exploring the memory of Europeans through a study on the interpretation of history as a political object.
