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The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history – in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with 'whiteness'. This book exposes the EU as a vehicle for imperial amnesia. Narratives of European integration emphasise the lessons of war and the Holocaust, but not the lessons of colonial history. The EU is about power as much as peace – and civic ideas of Europe are being displaced by ethnic and cultural ones. Since the 2015 refugee crisis, whiteness has become even more central to European identity – a troubling new turn in Europe's long civilisational project. It is time to confront the relationship between ideas of Europe and ideas of race.

"Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last few years, German chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Bismarck and even Hitler in the European media. And yet few can deny that Germany today is very different from the stereotype of nineteenth- and twentieth-century. After nearly seventy years of struggling with the Nazi past, Germans believe that they more than anyone have learned its lessons. Above all, what the new Germany aspires to stand for is peace. Germany is unique in this combination of economic assertiveness and military abstinence. So what does it mean to have a "German Europe" in the twenty-first century? In 'The paradox of German Power', Hans Kundnani explains how Germany got to where it is now and where it might go in the future. He explores German national identity and foreign policy through a series of tensions in German thinking and action: between continuity and change, between "normality" and "abnormality," between economics and politics, and between Europe and the world." -- Publisher

La manière dont Giorgia Meloni a été accueillie par le centre-droit européen révèle que l'extrême droite est irréductible au nationalisme eurosceptique. Puisqu'elle parle aussi au nom d'une civilisation européenne menacée, ses idées sont compatibles avec l'Union européenne.

ABSTRACT: In the months since October 7, people around the world have looked on in horror as Germany has wielded the memory of the Holocaust to silence criticism of Israel's war on Gaza. The German government's response to the conflict itself has not been all that different from that of the United States: both have increased their supply of weapons to Israel and supported Israel against South Africa in the International Court of Justice. But Germany has gone much further than the United States in persecuting protesters, artists, and intellectuals expressing sympathy for and solidarity with the Palestinian people. It wields its responsibility for a barely distant genocide as a kind of moral authority.

Die EU solle "geopolitischer" werden, heißt es oft. Was damit gemeint sein soll, bleibt unklar, wohl mit Bedacht. Tatsächlich drücken sich die Befürworter um eine Antwort. (IP)

Those calling for a more "geopolitical" European Union rarely define exactly what that means.(IPQ)

Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron wünscht sich ein Europa, das seine Bürger schützt. Die Bundesregierung will dagegen ein wettbewerbsfähiges Europa – und hat aus der EU eine Art "IWF-light" gemacht. Hilfe, "Solidarität", gibt es nur noch im Gegenzug für Strukturreformen. Vom eigentlichen Europa-Gedanken ist nicht mehr viel übrig.(IP)