Broadening Horizons
So, the Brexit argument is going to drag on for another six months – to Halloween, or Reformers Day, if you like. Will it be trick or treat? Will it lead to a new reformation of Britain? No-one knows right…
Apostles of reconciliation (Part II)
From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted. (Part I here) Later, after hearing about the dinner conversation (between Schuman and Boucquey - see part I), Buchman wrote to Schuman inviting him to visit Caux that summer, if possible at the same time…
Apostles of reconciliation (Part I)
From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted. While still prime minister, Schuman had heard reports of such inner change needed for the rebuilding of post-war Europe from a conversation on a train in the spring of 1948. Louis Boucquey, an industrialist from…
Experiencing Belfast
As we commemorate today the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, which brought an end to thirty years of deadly conflict in Northern Ireland, the Schuman Centre republish the weekly word from Jeff Fountain first published on the 27th…
The Creed That Unites And Divides
A spiritual faultline meandering from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Mediterranean in the south has produced a tragic legacy in European history. To understand Europe today requires an awareness of the causes of this faultline and its…
