Translated by Giulia Querini

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The EU and the Libyan conundrum

The death of Muammar Gaddafi on October 20th, 2011 put an end to 40 years of dictatorship in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. His fall left the stage open for great political and military instability, intensified by complex alliance games between the parties involved. The situation therefore seems to be in deadlock, especially as the international community has been slow to respect its commitments and to agree on a solution to the conflict. It is in this context that the European Union has announced, on March 31st this year, the launch of Operation IRINI off the Libyan coast.

mercredi 20 mai 2020

Rückgabe gestohlener Kunstwerke : was passiert, wenn wir die europäische Kulturpolitik neu definieren würden ?

Seit Jahrzehnten fordern Staaten die Rückgabe gestohlener Kunstwerke : Griechenland und Nigeria stellen Forderungen an das British Museum, Ägypten an das Louvre, Benin an das Quai Branly.... Die Leihgabe von Kunstwerken ist kein neues Phänomen. Teils waren es sogar Leihgaben, die einige Werke zu (…)

mercredi 17 juillet 2019

Returning stolen artworks : What if we redefined European cultural politics ?

For decades, some countries have been asking for the return of their stolen artworks : Greece and Nigeria from the British Museum, Egypt from the Louvre, Benin from the Quai Branly museum in Paris, to name a few. The lending of artworks isn’t a new phenomenom and it has even allowed some (…)

mercredi 29 mai 2019

Towards the European elections : The courage to exist... and to resist

Ever since the disastrous 1930s, we had not seen a period of such systemic crisis in Europe. It is a step back in time which is difficult to imagine for a world which tends to have forgotten history and lives in a present with no past and no future. Most politicians (and citizens) do not have (…)

mardi 12 février 2019