The deep economic crisis that Europe has been facing for several years can be seen as both a cause and a consequence of the political indecision with which the European Community or European Union has been living for so long now. The end-goal of this unique political project has never been clarified. While its objective to guarantee peace, security, justice and wealth was certainly explicit from the start and has been repeated in the various treaties underlying the Community or Union, the institutional and political means necessary to attain these goals have so far remained undetermined. In...

Au cours des soixante dernieres annees, l'Europe s'est construite comme espace politique, juridique et economique. Mais ce processus n'a pas ete accompagne par la construction d'un espace public europeen, en depit de la volonte de ses peres fondateurs, qui voulaient creer en Europe un espace culturel commun, reconnu comme tel par ses citoyens. A l'heure actuelle ou, a travers internet et les reseaux sociaux, l'espace public europeen est en train de se reconfigurer, le moment est venu d'une reflexion globale - a la fois historique et methodologique - sur cet espace. Quand un espace public...