Sound in principle or sick at heart? Articles on the financial crisis, compiled under Durkheim's memorable phrase. [more]

1989: not only historic moment of liberation, but also political and social dilemma for the present day. [more]

How media autonomy in Europe's newer democracies is inhibited by market forces and continuing political intervention. [more]

European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]

Texts on the issues of migration and cultural diversity, far beyond the common dichotomy of multicultural segregation and assimilation. [more]

Any reinvention of Europe that takes into account the complexities of it's place in a globalized world must contain a critique of Eurocentrism. [more]

The Beijing Olympics 2008 were unusual insofar as no country boycotted them. Eurozine compiles articles on sport, politics and protest. [more]

"In retrospect, the great event of 1968 in Europe was not Paris, but Prague." Articles on 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine... [more]

Populist politics are on the rise in Europe. Ivan Krastev, G.M.Tamás, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jacques Rupnik and others on democratic illiberalism. [more]

Cultural citizenship responds to the multicultural context of contemporary societies: texts by Ivaylo Ditchev, Charles Taylor, Rada Ivekovic... [more]

Are wars that are fought between nations a thing of the past, and are the future challenges more a case of ethnic strife and break-up of failed states? [more]

Jiri Pehe and Benedict Seymour discussed Marxism as "critical divide" between eastern and western Europe. Marxism in the West was never entirely discredited by proximity to state socialism, leading to divergent intellectual tendencies in the last twenty years. Is Marxism in eastern Europe today anything but a relic of totalitarianism? [more]

Robert Misik and Daniel Daianu discussed the ethical and political implications of a globalized economy. Does the financial crisis mark the end of neoliberal politics? Has the failure of political and economic structures opened up a new-old east-west divide in Europe? [more]

Danuta Glondys and Arne Ruth discussed the politics of memory and the role of cross-border journalism in building universality into the European project. How external criticism can pave the way for admissions of national responsibility for past injustices. [more]

Martin M. Simecka and Laszlo Rajk discussed the legacy of communism both as family history and as public issue. "It took me twenty years to understand that I didn't understand what had happened in the 1950s," said Simecka. [more]