Flickr/Eleanna Kounoupa. Some rights reserved.“Europe may be able to shape its own identity only if its people are united; it may be united only if its people share a common identity. This is the paradox that characterizes the construction of a common European consciousness”.
As both the site of several destructive, unjust wars and the birthplace of new ideas, philosophies and cosmopolitan rights, Europe is a unique and complex historical space. The Italian renaissance, the French Revolution, British parliamentarianism, German idealism: all of these, and more, have given Europeans the tools to engage the world in new and fascinating ways.
Unfortunately, this intellectual kaleidoscope has been at the root of the many intra-European conflicts that characterize modern European history, and reflects a continent culturally divided over differences in understanding Christianity, the nation, and the place of man in society.
