Minute silence observed by EU leaders for victims of Strasbourg Xmas market shooting at the EU Summit on Brexit. Enzo Zucchi/Press Association. All rights reserved.
At the end of the Colloquium "Revisiting Solidarity in Europe", held on 17 and 18 June, 2018, whose works are accessible online on the Collège de France website, a number of academics gathered on this occasion agreed to prepare a discussion-opener for various major European newspapers to engage in a continent-wide democratic debate on the deep crisis facing the European Union and how to overcome it. To date, this call has been published in Germany by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in Portugal in Il Publico, in France in Le Monde, in Greece in Ta NEA, in Poland in Rzeczpospolita, and in néerlandais in Belgium. Here is the English version.
Can European integration continue on its present course? Since 2005, and the failure of the Constitutional Treaty, Europe has been coming apart at the seams, yet nothing seems able to wake its leaders from their dogmatic slumber.
