Values | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh Europa Institute Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:01:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/files/2015/03/European-Futures-Icon.png Values | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk 32 32 The Future of the EU: Values and the Will of the People https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/the-future-of-the-eu-values-and-the-will-of-the-people/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:00:54 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=2644 David Bunikowski Common values and the future of the European Union are intrinsically linked, writes Dawid Bunikowski. Taking a legal philosophical perspective, he argues that the EU needs a stronger axiological foundation in order to be more effective, and he calls for a Europe-wide public debate on values to help shape the EU’s direction. Plenary …

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]]> Educating Europe: A Story of Shifts and Grand Old Myths https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/educating-europe-a-story-of-shifts-and-grand-old-myths/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:00:28 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=2626 Sotiria Grek Education has been an important, if often unrecognised, means of achieving European integration, writes Sotiria Grek. She argues that the shift of emphasis from a shared high European culture to a standards-based economic mindset reflects the desire of EU leaders to build different kinds of European identity, and that Europe’s current challenges may …

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