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…
A typically European phenomenon An article from Evert van de Poll for Vista Magazine (Issue 31). One of the most striking aspects of the socioreligious context of Europe is the high proportion of so-called nominal Christians. These are people who are affiliated…
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…
I love browsing through my grandmother’s photo albums, especially, searching for visual glimpses of her life before or during World War II, before and during the Soviet, then Nazi and then again Soviet regime. There are not many photos to…
From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted. (Part I here, Part II here, Part III here) This was to be the beginning of a prominent career in a succession of French cabinets over the next decade, successively as minister of Finance, Foreign Affairs and…
