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Borderland Europe: Étienne Balibar and Caterina Di Fazio in conversation

There is no middle ground on the mobile part of humanity : either hospitality, or enmity, i.e. various forms of elimination. This is our choice, and our problem for the years to come, perhaps for decades.

Borderland Europe: Étienne Balibar and Caterina Di Fazio in conversation
William Blake. Detail from hell, Canto V of Dante's Inferno. | Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.
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The Agora Europe Series, co-founded by Nadia Urbinati, Etienne Balibar and Caterina Di Fazio, is proud to present Charta 2020, a charter on European integration that declares 20 European public goods that we Europeans should endorse as they are essential to reshaping any future European political space. Charta 2020 was collectively composed by several dozen international activists, academics and politicians at the European University Institute on February 15, 2019, and first presented at the European Parliament on March 20. It will also be presented at the Italian Chamber of Deputies on April 16, at Maastricht University Studio Europa on April 29 before the Spitzenkandidaten debate, and at Columbia University on May 8. The transnational joint launch of #Charta2020 is scheduled for Europe Day on May 9, 2019.

Caterina Di Fazio (CDF): Agora Europe has just published its manifesto “For a Political Europe”, which focuses on the political dimension of the European Union, on what we define as European political space, which is based on the principle of freedom of movement and defined by porous borders.