And throughout European culture afterward, Cyrus remained the model.

Europeanizing Europe

They are particularly difficult if we see culture as the cement of Europe s future. All European countries probably believed at the outset that non European newcomers could be assimilated in the same way that Polish immigrants were assimilated into Germany s Ruhr region in the nineteenth century.

I suppose it can't be helped. You've turned European on me overnight, Johnny.

In 2001, it took place within the framework of the Month of European Culture.

Forthcoming also is the signing of the Convention on the Protection of the European Cultural Heritage.

In other words, it is not true that the European Union does not constitute a political union. European economic integration in all its aspects reflects the desire to integrate Europe politically, which, at least in my view, implies that European economic and monetary integration is irreversible.

That is a legal instrument which was developed and adopted by the Council of Europe after the changes in Europe in the early 1990s.

Jean Monnet, one of the EU s founding fathers, once said that, given the chance to start the European integration process again, he would have begun with culture a dimension in which we neither need nor want centralization. Europe s cultural richness consists precisely in its diversity, and the basis for its finest achievements has been competition between people, institutions, and places.

It is our firm belief that Europe cannot be complete without the countries of South Eastern Europe, without our peoples, who represent civilizations and cultures which have traditionally contributed to the formation of a contemporary European identity.

The Swedenization of Europe

European integration is vital for Kosovo and for the region.

Only the European Central Bank could implement true socialization of national debt in the eurozone. But EU law expressly forbids any form of ECB financing of deficits.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial collapse in the European Union, the popular support that drove European integration over the last six decades is waning.

Agency for Cultural and Technical Co operation, Arab Labour Organization, European Community, Organization of African Unity

Jacques Delors, one of its architects, once called the single currency the jewel in Europe s crown. Abandoning it would be tantamount to declaring the entire European integration project a failure.

LONDON Ever since the United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community in 1973, after the French withdrew Charles de Gaulle s veto of its membership, Britain s relationship with the European integration process has been strained. The British are reluctant Europeans, for historical and cultural reasons.

Europe s Educational Evolution

324. In force in Bulgaria is the European Cultural Convention, which was signed in 1992 in Malta.

Nowadays at the College of Europe, the culture of doubt among students from Old Europe seems to prevail over what was once the pragmatic confidence of students from New Europe. It is no longer the good wind from the East, but the bad wind from the EU s South and parts of its West that carries the day.

For no one should be mistaken there are alternatives to European integration all of them bad, unwanted, and dangerous. Unless all Europeans remain devoted to integration and the creation of an open Europe, the Continent's dark past may once again become its future.

The European African dialogue is also a dialogue among civilizations, as is the Ibero American process, to which Portugal, Spain, Andorra and the Latin American countries are committed.

The euro notes feature bridges as they appeared throughout Europe in various epochs, rather than images of actual structures that might seem to imply preferential regard for some countries. The town of Spijkenisse in the Netherlands is now in the process of building all seven bridges depicted on the euro notes.

Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, European Union, Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, Organization of African Unity

Globalizing European Security

Europe by Degrees

The Risk of European Centralization

The commitment to European integration requires a common vernacular, and that is English. The challenge for Europe is to use English as such an instrument, while avoiding submersion in American and British culture.

Accordingly, he explained that the denial of European Union membership to Turkey and the refusal to refer to Europe's Christian heritage in the European Constitution in fact masked the rejection of the notion that Europe is already multicultural.

For starters, the ENP assumes that all of the EU s neighbors, both in the south and in the east, ultimately want to realize European values and structures in their own countries. In other words, the ENP does not account for the developmental, cultural, and aspirational differences among the EU s partner countries.

The Enigma of European Defense

Reinventing the European Dream

In Europe, the power of the European Union, often uncontrolled immigration, and economic globalization are challenging feelings of national belonging, of being represented by national governments, or of sharing national cultures. Demagogues who denounce multiculturalism and warn of the Islamization of the West are exploiting the resultant fears about the loss of national identity.

9. Welcomes the strengthening of ties between New Caledonia and the European Union, and notes the European Development Fund assistance in infrastructural, cultural and human resource developments, including vocational training programmes

The European Union attaches a great deal of importance to the subject of a culture of peace and the text that will result from today apos s debate.

Rethinking Fortress Europe

In short, it is good for Americans and for the world that old and new Europe are becoming one. We can all benefit from the soft power of an enlarged Europe.

Adding to the sense of comforting normality, several European officials have taken to the airwaves with optimistic pronouncements. Whereas the euro and the eurozone were under threat just nine months ago, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy recently declared, this isn t the case anymore.

Beyond universalism comes the eighth factor supporting the EU s survival multiculturalism. It is a disputed model, but multiculturalism is more a source of strength than of weakness.

This extremism is, slowly but surely, producing its own reaction, as we see from Islamaphobic parties electoral gains in Europe, and statements by European leaders that multiculturalism has failed.

In this environment, deepening Europe s defense and security integration would appear to be low on the list of priorities. But the opposite is true further development of the CSDP is essential to the survival of the European way of life.

This pattern can be only partly repeated in the eurozone, where both debt socialization and a return to normal risk assessment appear more difficult.

There are also EU programmes on culture and education that have been opened up to Icelanders by the EEA Agreement.

They all look like Europeans.

Europe s Dog in the Nighttime