Fritz Groothues was, until recently, Head of Strategy at the BBC World Service and is now a freelance writer and consultant. He was one of the initiators of the Radio E project, a joint initiative by Europe’s main international broadcasters to create a new European radio service using digital technology. He has also advised Lithuanian Radio and Television on a new public service strategy on behalf of the BBC World Service Trust.

Recent articles

Fritz Groothues helps us to revisit the central subject of Café Europa – European identity – and to break the subject down into thinkable parts (not forgetting our emotions). Encouragingly, Café Europa contributions to date have touched on many aspects of the issue. Follow the links for a ‘hyperwalk’ through this part of the strand.

Today the squabbling leaders of Nice and Laeken only seem to have one vision: how to secure the best for their own country…