Our
Vision
Europe is the most ambitious political experiment in our time.
In a world that is moving toward a new fragmentation and wars of aggression, Europe keeps alive the possibility of a different history.
The project of European unity is the only path through which our continent can become a place of autonomy and dignity and a force for peace. It also represents an extraordinary adventure of political imagination, capable of redefining the meaning of the economy, democracy, the relationship between people and technology, and between people and the environment, as well as the very organization of the world and of our individual lives.
However, for this project to become reality, it is necessary to regain the desire and strength to imagine and build the future.
Europe has always been a visionary project of transformation, but in recent years that vision has been clouded.
India uses the expression “Developed India 2047”, pledging that by the centenary of independence the country will have become a prosperous civilization rediscovering confidence in itself.
China looks to 2049, the centenary of the People’s Republic, and anchors its horizon to the formula “the great Chinese rejuvenation”: modernization, technological primacy, and geopolitical centrality.
Europa 2057 restores clarity of purpose and long term vision. We take the centenary of the signing of the 1957 Treaties of Rome, which set the process of European unification in motion, as the milestone for Europe’s transformative agenda.
Europa 2057 is both a laboratory of ideas and a platform for action; it is an audiovisual and editorial initiative; it is a network of individuals and events; and is a community for all those who wish to rediscover the spirit of radical imagination.
Our
Mission
Europa
2057
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Rosi Braidotti
POST NATIONALISM
Why is post-nationalism so difficult to accept? Why is it that everyone still clings to ideas about their nations and cultures that limit exchange and construction? Why is it that Europe, the post-national project par excellence, is still facing a deficit in commitment compared to national and even local commitments?
In this riveting essay, Rosi Braidotti tackles these questions through a renewed examination of the social imaginary underlying how people understand their communities, cultures and nations. Europeans in particular need to become Europeans just as we became French, Italian or German in the past.
In the contemporary geopolitical context — war, the rise of authoritarian right-wing politics, the return of illiberal, neofascist political movements spreading a climate of gloom and crisis — the unfinished task of becoming post-national has acquired new urgency. The way to make it possible might lie in a renewal of love and solidarity, creative energy and affirmative ethics.
