Daphne Büllesbach is the Executive Director of European Alternatives, a Europe-wide civil society organization devoted to developing the potential for transnational politics and culture. She founded the Berlin office back in 2013 and leads the organisations’ flagship event, Transeuropa Festival, a bi-annual event bringing together activists and artists and taking place in Madrid in 2017. In May 2017, her co-edited book: Shifting Baselines of Europe was published by transcript editing house.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalunya and beyond: what’s after the nation-state?To take back control we need neither to retreat to existing nation-states nor to replicate the nation state’s authoritarian structures at a smaller, regional level.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Looking for European alternatives in BelgradeopenDemocracy is partnering with European Alternatives to explore the Transeuropa festival. Here, two of the organisers explain why they chose Belgrade as the location for this year's festival.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Are alternatives still possible in Europe?After five years of crisis marked by rising technocracy and #ThisIsACoup hashtags, is the hope of a truly democratic Europe still real? In this second episode of the new web-show TalkReal we continue asking whether change in Europe is still possible. (Video, 23 mins)
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe: a new version is availableWe are outraged. We see Europe falling apart in front of our very eyes. Europe is in dire need of radical change in social, financial and energy policies and more. Join us.