Referendum in Scotland / VOXEUROP.EU

Referendum in Scotland Currency, policy, discourse and identity Karel B. Müller, voxeurop.eu, 17. 9. 2014 Should symbolism be taking over economic and civil needs? Certainly not! I grew up in the post-Prague Spring’s Czechoslovakia (I was 19 years old when it broke...

Zeman, Putin’s apprentice / voxeurop.eu

Karel B. Müller, voxeurop.eu, 18. 7. 2013 Parliament dismissed, political parties paralysed, the constitution manipulated… Since Miloš Zeman became president, the Czech Republic seems in democratic reverse. Only its EU membership guards against a slide into...

A Positive European Identity / The New Presence

PDF DOWNLOAD If nation states wish to successfully pursue their national interests, they must be willing to sacrifice their autonomy. The crisis of the national state is primarily a result of our way of life, most commonly described as globalisation, which has brought...

Structuring a Common Europe / The New Presence

PDF Download The decline of the nation-state presents a unique opportunity to form a true European identity If Europeans wish to retain their cultural diversity and let it flourish, they must continue to cultivate a European civil society and European identity. Why?...