Common Ground: Robert Menasse on European democracy or barbarism

Our annual magazine Common Ground offers readers a panoramic view of the issues we are addressing with our activities, those of our grantees, and those of partners and friends. Here we like highlighting the a contribution by the renowned author Robert Menasse.

“I’d like to invite you on a journey through time. What will the Europe of the future look like? Of course, we want a democratic Europe – but how should it be organised? It’s time to talk about European democracy – its evident deficits, its contradictions and the need to develop it further. You might ask why we are asking these ques- tions now? Europe is democratic – chances are that the country you live in is probably a democracy too. All the Member States of the European Union are democracies. So what should be changed?” Asks the author.

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