Europe: A Beautiful Idea?

Conference

Nexus Conference 2004 -

4 december 2004
9.00 – 18.10
Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam

The conferences on Europe culminated in an Intellectual Summit focused on the questions: is Europe a beautiful idea? If it is: why? And what does this imply? What is the ideal and what is reality? What can we do to continue realising the idea of Europe? One thing is certain: the idea of Europe has no future without the citizens of Europe. As Winston Churchill pointed out in his United Europe speech in 1947: ‘Europe is a spiritual conception. But if men cease to hold that conception in their minds, cease to feel its worth in their hearts, it will die.’

Full Videos

1 – Introduction by Rob Riemen

2 – Lecture by Atzo Nicolaï

3 – Lecture by Adam Zagajewski

4 – Debate A Citizen of Europe

5 – Lecture by Jacqueline de Romilly

6 – Debate European Culture and Education

7 – Concert Schönberg Ensemble

8 – Debate European Values

9 – Debate Europe: A Beautiful Idea?

10 – Concluding Remarks by Balkenende

Published in

Journal Nexus

2010 or Earlier

Nexus 40

Europa realiseren

Dutch publication containing essays about the American Promise and the role of religion in a globalizing world. Can Western and Islamic values co-exist or is a 'clash of civilization' inevitable?