11 July 2017
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7 January 2010The European Union has confirmed its characteristic of being an “economic giant” and a “political dwarf” and its weakness – that should decrease thanks to the Lisbon Treaty – in speaking effectively with “one voice”, only way to weigh in the renewed international context. How can we explain its marginal role? -
5 November 2009In 2009, European year of Creativity and Innovation, and in our society, defined as the “knowledge society”, at a distance of four hundred years from Galileo’s “heresy”, there is any hope to be “authentically heretic”? Internet, real instrument of democracy, gives everyone the opportunity to get knowledge, entering an almost infinite number of sources and information.
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5 June 2009China is today the market growing fastest in the world in terms of imports from EU. At the invitation of Mr. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China paid an official visit to the Headquarters of the European Commission on 30th January 2009. The two leaders promoted mutual trust and bilateral cooperation and reaffermed their commitment to further develop the EU-China comprehensive and strategic partnership. Economic development does not mean democratic or social development, as well as economic dialogue is not intercultural dialogue. Nevertheless, Chinese opening, although mainly due to economic interest, is however an “opening” that, inevitably, goes beyond the mere economic sphere.
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26 February 2009According to Eurostat, more than 200.000 persons daily cross Swiss borders for work and the daily trade volume of Switzerland and EU amounts over 1 billion euro. The figures coming out from the analyses made by the Swiss Business Federation point out that immigrants’ labour force is still today not sufficient to match the needs of Swiss economy and that this labour force is complementary and not substitutive of the Swiss one. In a time like the present one, characterized by the global economic crisis, a different attitude to the external world could be a mean for a concrete renewal of the established globalised economic models and could be an instrument for facing new challenges.
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9 February 2009The European Commission declared “2008: European Year of Intercultural Dialogue”. What to think about is the fact that the project, born to make the distinctive cultures of the 27 EU Member States known each others, showed very soon its bounds and the need to be partially redirected, in consideration of the complex reality to face. In primis the difficulty to clearly specify the meaning of “national culture” in terms of culture typical to the population living from long time on the territory of each Member State, since, as a matter of fact, those national cultures result today “contaminated” by the others, those of immigrants. Likewise, European Commission declared “2009: the Year of Creativity and Innovation”. The transition from the EYID to the EYCI is very interesting to analyse because culture and creativity play a focal role in promoting both European identity and European citizenship.
