- 09, 30, 2015
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- Baines, Culture, Current Themes, History, Memory
Who do we think we are?
In ‘Who do we think we are?’, Bishop Nick Baines questions whether it’s time for a new narrative to help shape who and what we want Europe to become.
Read More- 09, 28, 2015
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- Culture, Current Themes, History, Memory, Tim Livesey
Be careful what you wish for
Former diplomat Tim Livesey examines whether in the rush to reform the EU we risk destroying the very platform that has contributed to Europe’s peace and security.
Read More- 09, 22, 2015
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- Adrian Hilton, Culture, History, Memory
The history of the European Union is not our memory of Europe
Is the EU an inescapable part of us? Political theologian Adrian Hilton argues that Britain is part of Europe but it is not part of the EU’s Europe.
Read More- 09, 19, 2015
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- Caroline Spelman, Culture, History, Memory
Choral diplomacy and the songs of peace
Caroline Spelman reflects on the lessons to be learnt from last year’s joint concert involving the parliamentary choirs from Germany and the UK.
Read More- 09, 16, 2015
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- Brian Russell, Postcard from...
Postcard from Oslo
Norway has a population of five million people and voted decisively against joining the EU in 1994. With oil and gas reserves, Norway is the biggest European supplier and strong economically, even with uncertain oil prices of late. The Norwegian State has prudently invested the oil and gas surplus in a vast national fund to […]
Read More- 09, 15, 2015
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- Culture, Guy Brandon, History, Memory
Money and power: the roots and future of Europe?
Against the backdrop of the Greek debt crisis, Guy Brandon questions whether the move towards European monetary union has corrupted the founding values of the EU. What kind of a Union are we now part of?
Read More- 09, 14, 2015
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- Booth, Current Themes, Subsidiarity
Is the EU constitutionally flawed?
Philip Booth from the Institute of Economic Affairs explores how Catholic social teaching on subsidiarity might help restrain the EU’s tendency towards centralisation and in turn protect the wider common good.
Read More- 09, 11, 2015
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- Alison Elliot, Culture, History, Memory
We did that!
Why is it that we always see our relationship with the EU as a one way affair as something that is inflicted on us? Alison Elliot looks at why we negate or own human agency in Europe.
Read More- 09, 10, 2015
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- Culture, Current Themes, History, Memory, Rowland-Jones
‘… every tribe and language and people and nation …’
Moral theologian Sarah Rowland Jones looks again at Revelation’s picture of heaven to see how it might help us make sense of the diversity of tribes and nations that shape our understanding of Europe.
Read More- 09, 09, 2015
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- Culture, Current Themes, History, Memory, Wall
Caught between reform and reformation
Former diplomat Stephen Wall examines how our attitudes towards the EU have been shaped by our experiences of the reformation
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