A Vision for Europe 2020

A Vision for Europe 2020

Author: Rosemary Bechler

Publisher: ERIS

Published: 2020-01-05

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1912475286

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An international all-star cast of thinkers, artists, and policy makers joins forces for a transparent, united, democratic Europe. This 2020 Edition features contributions by Kate Aronoff, Bill McKibben, Evgeny Morozov, Jerome Roos, and more. The European Union was an exceptional achievement. It brought together and in peace peoples speaking different languages and submersed in different cultures, proving that it was possible to create a shared framework of human rights across a continent that was not long ago tormented by murderous chauvinism, racism, and barbarity. It could have been the proverbial Beacon on the Hill, showing the world how peace and solidarity may be snatched from the jaws of age-old conflict and bigotry. But things turned out differently. Today, a common bureaucracy and a common currency divide Europeans who were beginning to unite despite their different languages and cultures. A confederacy of myopic politicians, economically naïve officials, and financially incompetent ‘experts’ submit slavishly to the edicts of financial and industrial conglomerates, alienating people and stirring up a dangerous anti-European backlash. Proud peoples are being turned against each other. Nationalism, extremism and racism are being re-awakened. With contributions from some of the world’s foremost thinkers, artists and politicians covering the full spectrum of concerns for the future of the Union, this volume presents realistic and viable alternatives to the mainstream barrage of dreadful prospects - a true vision for Europe.


Heart of Europe

Heart of Europe

Author: Peter H. Wilson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 1025

ISBN-13: 0674058097

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An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year “Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.” —Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European history...Succeeds splendidly in rescuing the empire from its critics.” —Wall Street Journal Massive, ancient, and powerful, the Holy Roman Empire formed the heart of Europe from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later. An engine for inventions and ideas, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture, it derived its legitimacy from the ideal of a unified Christian civilization—though this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope for supremacy. In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Holy Roman Empire worked, why it was so important, and how it changed over the course of its existence. The result is a tour de force that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military power and the legacy of its offspring, from Nazi Germany to the European Union. “Engrossing...Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to finish...A book that is relevant to our own times.” —Brendan Simms, The Times “The culmination of a lifetime of research and thought...an astonishing scholarly achievement.” —The Spectator “Remarkable...Wilson has set himself a staggering task, but it is one at which he succeeds heroically.” —Times Literary Supplement


The Passage to Europe

The Passage to Europe

Author: Luuk van Middelaar

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0300181124

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Provides the untold story of the crises and compromises that lead to the formation of the European Union.


Future War and the Defence of Europe

Future War and the Defence of Europe

Author: John R. Allen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0198855834

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Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe's peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe's defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.


A Republican Europe of States

A Republican Europe of States

Author: Richard Bellamy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107022282

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Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.


The Future of Migration to Europe

The Future of Migration to Europe

Author: matteo villa

Publisher: Ledizioni

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 8855262025

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Even as the 2013-2017 "migration crisis" is increasingly in the past, EU countries still struggle to come up with alternative solutions to foster safe, orderly, and regular migration pathways, Europeans continue to look in the rear-view mirror. This Report is an attempt to reverse the perspective, by taking a glimpse into the future of migration to Europe. What are the structural trends underlying migration flows to Europe, and how are they going to change over the next two decades? How does migration interact with specific policy fields, such as development, border management, and integration? And what are the policies and best practicies to manage migration in a more coherent and evidence-based way?


Rare Cancer Agenda 2030

Rare Cancer Agenda 2030

Author: Rare Cancers Europe

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2020-02-24

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 8831642715

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RARE CANCER AGENDA 2030 Ten Recommendations from the EU Joint Action on Rare Cancers 1. Rare cancers are the rare diseases of oncology 2. Rare cancers should be monitored 3. Health systems should exploit networking 4. Medical education should exploit and serve healthcare networking 5. Research should be fostered by networking and should take into account an expected higher degree of uncertainty 6. Patient-physician shared clinical decision-making should be especially valued 7. Appropriate state-of-the-art instruments should be developed in rare cancer 8. Regulation on rare cancers should tolerate a higher degree of uncertainty 9. Policy strategies on rare cancers and sustainability of interventions should be based on networking 10. Rare cancer patients should be engaged


Curriculum Reform in the European Schools

Curriculum Reform in the European Schools

Author: Sandra Leaton Gray

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 3319714643

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book examines the modern role of the European School system within the European Union, at a time when the global economy demands a new vision for contemporary education. The European schools are currently in a state of crisis: their 60-year-old tradition of bilingual and multilingual education is being strained by rapid EU expansion and the removal of English speaking teachers as a result of Brexit. Their tried and tested model of mathematics and science education has rapidly been overtaken by new developments in pedagogy and assessment research, while recruitment and retention of students and teachers has become increasingly fraught as European member states review what they are, and what they are not, prepared to fund. The authors draw on original and empirical research to assess the European Schools’ place in a new Europe where the entire post-war European Project is potentially at risk. This well-researched volume will be of interest to practitioners working in European schools as well as students and scholars of EU politics and international education.