By analyzing the case study of the 2013 edition of the “Festival of Europe” held in Florence, the essay ex-plores the limits and potential forms of participa-tion in European contexts as they occur on special “celebratory” ...

Through increasing cultural diversity of European countries education in general and higher education in particular become the constructive force to promote social cohesion and integration. The European higher education ...

The essay focuses on the multidimensional relationship between Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and Europe. Firstly, it is emphasized that the Bourdieusian approach is from its very first steps an integral part of the reconstruction ...

This paper aims at highlighting the main steps in the growing process of the German Green party. Originally a heterogeneous mixture of different social and political movements, bound by core values such as environmentalism, ...

Are Germans still pro-Europe? And, even more, may the current behaviour of German Government be called pro-Europe? This work deals with this interesting topic analyz-ing, on one hand, the European policy of German govern-ment, ...

The debate on the totalitarian phenomenon was started by European scholars from diverse intellectual backgrounds who produced analysis and interpretive models in the 1930s and 1940s, often transforming their own personal ...

The work of Carlo Curcio “Europe. History of an Idea” (published in 1958 by Vallecchi, publisher of Florence, in two volumes with a total of over a thousand pages) is certainly one of the most significant historical works ...

Is there a link between economic crisis and disaffection toward European citizenship? This paper raises this re-search question, investigating the behavior of Italian cit-izens as a particularly interesting case study. For ...

Republic of Belarus as an independent state appeared on the map of Europe only in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Currently, Belarus is a middle-size country on the borderland between the European Union and ...

This article deals with the problem of the social foundations of social solidarity in the context of today’s European crisis. One of the main hypothesis is that the crisis is not only a factor of disintegration but also ...