Culture & Ideas
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Eurozone: Europe needs its Martin Luther
17 May 2013449166 La Repubblica Rome -
European Union: ‘Europa mit links’ (Europe with the left)
16 May 2013633PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
International Trade: Cultural exception: Paris finds some allies
15 May 2013747PresseuropLa Tribune -
Germany: ‘A painful defeat for Google’
15 May 2013763PresseuropDie Welt -
Europe day: A rise halted by nation states
9 May 2013322133 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Europe day: The European project is a total failure
9 May 2013130389 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Iceland: Renewal through architecture
7 May 2013269 Público Lisbon -
Culture: ‘200 years of Kierkegaard, philosopher of freedom’
3 May 20132625PresseuropDe Groene Amsterdammer -
Media: ‘The duty to tell’
3 May 2013381PresseuropLa Stampa -
Democracy: Dare to be a little more Swiss!
1 May 201385542 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Design: The runaway architecture of the ECB
26 April 201312835 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Ideas: What happened to the European dream?
25 April 201394266 Kultura Sofia -
EU-United States: Film-makers defend European cultural exception
24 April 2013764PresseuropLes Echos -
Debate: Of Germany – and of misunderstandings
24 April 201321239 Le Monde Paris -
Belgium: Brussels enjoys an artistic awakening
18 April 20133172 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Debate: The heart of Europe
18 April 2013426155 El País Madrid -
Debate: Cyber-democracy is just the first step
16 April 201343826 La Stampa Turin -
Society: The day the middle class will rise up
10 April 2013325424 Wprost Warsaw -
Denmark: ‘European Commissioner reprimands Denmark on privacy’
10 April 2013343PresseuropPolitiken -
Democracy: For a European Republic
5 April 20131256299 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Netherlands: ‘Rembrandt is back in its place’
5 April 2013473PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Internet: Google in privacy showdown with EU states
3 April 2013663PresseuropFinancial Times, The Daily Telegraph -
Hungary: Budapest, the cultural wasteground
29 March 2013212628 Der Freitag Berlin -
Television: A newscasting Tower of Babel
29 March 201320722 La Croix Paris -
Germany: ‘Loophole for an investor’
28 March 2013261PresseuropNeues Deutschland -
Debate: The “Latin Empire” should strike back
26 March 20133096491 Libération Paris -
European Union: Politics turns back to the Athens agora
25 March 201334590 La Repubblica Rome -
Iceland: Journey to Iceland’s cultural miracle
22 March 20131488326 El País Madrid -
Hungary: ‘Szaniszló hands back medal’
21 March 2013312PresseuropMagyar Hírlap -
United Kingdom: ‘MPs to vote on press law’
18 March 201341PresseuropThe Sun -
European institutions: Grand ideas and empty jargon
15 March 201318525 Revue Politika Brno -
European Union: The problem with Germany
15 March 2013310270PresseuropNew Statesman, The Daily Mail -
Czech Republic: A playground for ‘hacktivists’
13 March 2013714 Respekt Prague -
Debate: Europe has lost its citizens
11 March 201380698 El País Madrid -
Debate: We, the lost European people
6 March 2013586215 The New York Times New York -
Hungary: ‘Klubrádió wins again’
6 March 201355PresseuropNépszabadság -
Debate: Grillo’s twist on European populism
4 March 201322417 De Morgen Brussels -
Vatican: ‘Amen’
28 February 2013148PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Internet: Selling spyware to trap dissidents
22 February 20134219 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Germany: ‘Eternity for Preußler’
21 February 201316PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Internet: Will Google face punishment?
20 February 2013532PresseuropLe Monde -
Romania: ‘Self-flagellation cinema’ rakes it in
19 February 2013137 Adevărul Bucharest -
Cinema: ‘Nazif Mujić returns to Sarajevo with two Silver Bears’
18 February 201329PresseuropOslobođenje -
Vatican: ‘Benedict XVI: I’m leaving St. Peter’s boat’
12 February 20132PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Vatican: ‘No strength left’
12 February 20131520PresseuropBild -
Vatican: ‘Pope's adieu decided a year ago’
12 February 2013222PresseuropLa Stampa -
Vatican: ‘The empty chair... Who will succeed Benedict as Pope?’
12 February 2013177PresseuropThe Irish News -
Movie piracy: Jolly Roger flies over film industry
8 February 2013283PresseuropDie Zeit -
Germany: ‘Once upon a time there was a count...’
4 February 2013336PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Germany: Boomtime for Hitler
1 February 201338869 Le Temps Geneva
The EU is becoming a corrupt church where Germany rules by a dogmatic economic orthodoxy. Politics must take back control with a protestant schism coming from grassroots initiatives, argues an Italian columnist. 
For Die Zeit publisher-editor Josef Joffe, the European experience has been derailed by the reluctance of some member states to give up their sovereignty. 
Constructed on economic, political and geopolitical criteria, the EU must be judged by the same criteria. And the verdict of the British historian Niall Ferguson is final. 
Completed just as the financial bubble burst, the Harpa concert hall symbolises the recovery of Iceland following years of gloom. Just one of the reasons why it was awarded the 2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize. 
The EU would do well to take on a little more direct democracy. Switzerland’s example shows that more citizen involvement in deciding on and control the country’s policy can make for a leaner state and lower debt. An EU-wide referendum on euro bonds, however, would be a mistake. 
For the new building of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Vienna architect Wolf D. Prix sought inspiration in the fast-paced game of FC Barcelona. From two twisted, avant-garde office towers, the European Central Bank will soon be steering Europe through the crisis. 
Amnesia, recession, the failure of political elites, divided societies… The free and caring Europe that was the dream of oppressed peoples no longer exists, it is just that European leaders lack the courage to admit it, says a Bulgarian political analyst. 
To celebrate 50 years of Franco-German friendship, Paris's Louvre Museum is presenting a major retrospective of German painting. The problem is that some – on the other side of the Rhine – say it suggests that Nazism was an inevitable result of German culture. 
Brussels seems to be all the rage for contemporary art galleries. Less expensive, less saturated, and blessed with a new cultural dynamism, the town is in the midst of an artistic boom. But not everyone is convinced it will last. 
The crisis has accentuated the selfishness of EU countries, triggering the abandonment of cooperative European integration. A Spanish philosopher argues that cohesion and interdependence must be regained before an irrational north-south divide tears the EU apart. 
Responding to political crisis, a chorus of voices, such as Italy's Five Star Movement, are calling for a transition to the direct participation that the Internet has made possible. However, the two systems should complement, rather than compete against each other. 
When the middle classes revolt, our political leaders will realise that they have been sitting on a powder keg, warns Polish philosopher Marcin Król. In the absence of any prospect of social advancement, they may choose revolution as a last resort to make themselves heard. 
Whether political leaders or citizens, the pragmatics have failed to build a prosperous and wholly democratic EU. Now it’s the turn of the dreamers. Today, they are the true realists, write political scientist Ulrike Guérot and writer Robert Menasse. 
A once thriving creative and cultural scene is now dominated by Hungarian nationalist values defended by the government, warns a Hungarian journalist who has now left the country to live in Germany. 
Founded in 1993, European news channel, Euronews, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. With 400 journalists from some 30 countries broadcasting in a dozen languages, the channel has managed to develop an image that appeals to a broad audience, from German businessmen to Egyptian protesters. 
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by another philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, just after World War II. This "Latin Empire" could act as a counter weight to the dominant role played by Germany in the European Union. 
The institutional and European democratic crises are pushing leaders towards tricky choices in terms of governability. Would it not perhaps be better to move toward new forms of participation that better match citizens' needs? 
Iceland escaped the grip of austerity and has turned Icelandic culture into the country’s second largest contributor to GDP, with an impact of around €1bn per year. Unemployment is at 5.7 per cent, growth at 3 per cent – and the island is alive to the sound of music and movie shoots. 
Each year the EU produces thousands of pages of reports, speeches and legislation designed to move the European project forward. They have one thing in common: a pompous language worthy of a regime lost in its own dogma, writes a Czech political scientist in Revue Politika. 
The Czech Republic was targeted in a string of cyber attacks last week. Why? As a small country with a relatively developed Internet infrastructure, it is an ideal testing ground for hackers who are planning to hunt for bigger prey, says an Internet expert. 
The latest Eurobarometer figures are showing clearly what the election results have been hinting at one by one: hit by the crisis, Europeans have lost their confidence in the EU. After having saved the euro, we must rescue the legitimacy of the EU – and before the 2014 elections. 
More Europe could help our continent out of the crisis, but we would still have to create the Europeans. We must encourage education, cultural exchanges and political initiatives to recover the sense of common destiny that we lost last century, argues a French journalist. 
The big winner in the Italian elections, Beppe Grillo, is often described as populist. But in Europe, this political category is somewhat blurred, covering quite a cross-section of movements, argues a Belgian historian. 
He’s regarded as one of the meanest Germans in the cybersphere: Martin Münch supplies police and secret services with spyware, which some dictators use to terrorize dissidents. 
After Cannes, it was the turn of the Berlin Film Festival to honour a film from the Romanian New Wave, from a generation of filmmakers who have been ignored, and from a country without cinemas. Like “Beyond the Hills” by Cristian Mungiu, “Child's Pose” by Călin Peter Netzer expresses the “suffering and despair of Romanian life,” says a sociologist. 
Released in the autumn of 2012, ahead of the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's coming to power, "Er ist wieder da" ("He's Back") by German writer Timur Vermes starts off with the dictator’s return to Berlin in the summer of 2011. The book has soared to the top of the book sales charts, but it has also set some teeth on edge. - 1 of 13
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