Veranstaltungen

16 - 17 September 2024

Europe is in crisis. Perhaps the European Union has even entered, as many analysts like to put it, an era of ‘polycrisis’. One of our most fundamental European debates concerns the future direction of the Union, especially in terms of its democracy, its civic cultures and its geopolitics. What should the make-up of the Union be in terms of democratic institutions? What should be its foundation in terms of citizenship and civic cultures? How should citizens and policy makers address the division and workings of sovereign powers in the Union? How should the Union act in the world of geopolitics? In short, what kind Federal Union should Europe be?

The project is co-organised with the political advisor, essayist and historian Joshua Livestro, whose study A More Perfect Union: Federal Union in Political Thought and Practice, 1500-1951 has just been published as paperback by Amsterdam University Press.

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