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Remembering in Europe today

Professor Werner Jeanrond questions whether we need to reflect more critically and self-critically on what we do when we remember those whom we care to remember on Remembrance Sunday? How might we be able to remember the casualties of war in a way that furthers the path of peace in Europe?

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Postcard from Vienna

Patrick Curran, the Anglican Chaplain in Vienna, reflects on Austrian attitudes to the EU and the prospects for EU reform.

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A part of the main?

Drawing on Christian Aid’s post war history, Loretta Minghella argues that the challenges facing Europe today underline the importance of the EU’s foundational values.

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Has Europe outlived its usefulness?

Paula Yates refutes the suggestion that we should allow the EU to quietly decay?

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Europe’s past invades the present

Francis Campbell shows that despite the EU’s evident successes, the asymmetry in memories across EU member states remains a source of division and tension.

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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.

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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 […]

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The EU – not as godless as you think

Robert Innes, Anglican Bishop in Europe, takes a fresh look at the origins of the EU and how it has been shaped by Christian thinking.

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The EU and the inevitable slide into secular authoritarianism

Suzanne Evans looks again at EU’s development and asks why so many of its policies are designed to inflame division rather than bring harmony.

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Learning to disagree well on Europe

Launching Reimagining Europe, Archbishop Justin Welby makes the case that we need to seek out new ways of disagreeing well on Europe that leaves us energised and revitatlised, not dispirited and divided.

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