Europe is Dead…Long Live Europe?

Etienne Balibar announces the death of the European Project. Does anyone disagree?

Balibar’s pronouncement reminded me of a paragraph in Jean-Paul Sartre’s introduction to Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la Terre (1961), Sarte writes:

“When a Frenchman, for example, says to another, Frenchman: “We’re finished” – which, to my knowledge, has [...]

“If solidarity goes, Europe goes.”

Here is a link to Roger Cohen’s op-ed in Tuesday’s NY Times on European Solidarity or lack thereof.

Here are a few remarks:

I think that while reading the complaints about Greece’s overly generous welfare state that currently abound in the Anglophone and German media (though I am not saying that this is all there is to [...]

Irish approve Lisbon treaty by wide margin

So the second time around the Irish have approved the Lisbon treaty by a rather wide margin – 67.1% voted yes, while 32.9% voted no, with a turnout of 58%. The pro-Europe camp has quite a few things to be pleased about in this election. For one they successfully countered the disinformation campaign that killed [...]