This text is an adopted version of my speech at the German fashion lifestyle & web community conference RE:PUBLICA, on May 6, 2015 in Berlin. The speech comes together with a series of images and charts and cannot be understood without. To get the spirit of the presentation in German, there is a YouTube video clip which is available here.
In this article, I want to sketch out a completely new approach to how we see and look at Europe. The aim is to reflect on the possibility of a European utopia in the twenty-first century, which is no longer the idea of a United States of Europe, but of a European Republic - thus a proposal for a new narrative, for which the search is already on in Europe.
This text is no ordinary text on Europe, its institutions or the euro-crisis - all too often boring, technical, confusing or dry. This text aims essentially at Europe`s emancipation. It is about a European Republic as well as about freedom, bulls and caps and – last but not least – women!
