History, Society & Culture

Freedom of speech: a new case of France’s fragile democracy?

The French government’s repeated assaults on freedom of the speech over the past few months is a matter of great concern, even though the President and its Prime Minister have been trying to hide it behind other pressing concerns: radical Islamism and the coronavirus pandemic of coronavirus. An (...)

Monday 29 March 2021

A matter of interpretation: Christian values and LGBTQ+ Rights in Hungary and Ireland

Christianity has been the predominant religion of Hungary for the past thousand years. The religion was brought to the country by the founder of the state, King Stephen at the turn of the 10th century. In order to gain more influence through the support of the Church he called upon missionaries (...)

Sunday 28 March 2021

Separated but still together: Church and State in Germany

In 2009, a head physician at a Catholic hospital was dismissed by his employer, the Catholic Church. He was accused of being disloyal to church ethics due to his divorce and remarriage. In 2018, a prospective teacher at a Catholic secondary school was dismissed by the Church because he made (...)

Monday 1 March 2021

Italy’s State Secularism: full of contradictions

Favoring Catholicism over Islam, from school benches to mosques’ building permits, Italy seems to have given its very own twist to the concept of religious neutrality. With this article, Rebecca Wenmoth finely displays the incoherences which puts at odds the Roman nation’s official state (...)

Monday 25 January 2021

Democracy at the system change: A dream come true?

Interview with Miklós HARASZTI, Hungarian journalist and politician, speaker at the online panel discussion organised by UEF and JEF Hungary on the 22nd of January 2021 - 17:00

Friday 22 January 2021

Belonging without believing: ‘Cultural religion’ in secular Sweden

Less than a quarter of Sweden’s population believe in God, but almost two-thirds of its population are members of the evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden. This paradox, Sophie Sievert-Kloster suggests, has less to do with religion in the traditional sense of the word, and more to do with (...)

Sunday 10 January 2021

’If you take the house, I’ll take the kids’: State vs. Church in Greece

The fascinating analysis of Nasos Smirneos looking at the missed separation of the State and the Church in Greece of 2018, its cultural and political context, its origins and its current stakes for the Greek society. The Church represents the word of God in our physical world; however, I could (...)

Sunday 3 January 2021

The French Laïcité: From a core value to an excuse for stigmatization

Hannah Bieber provides us with some of her French insights of the heated debates which have been tearing apart laïcité and Islam for the last few years in the country. In today’s France, what are the collateral effects of a chase for religious neutrality? Having been born and raised in France, I (...)

Sunday 27 December 2020

Religion, the new open field of the Modern-World’s ideological battleground?

Immanuel Wallerstein’s theory predicted culture to be the new ideological battleground of the Modern-World has never seemed so vivid as the current open fire bouncing back and forth between Erdogan and Macron displays the frontline of. Ever since the fall of the Berlin wall, the scission between (...)

Sunday 20 December 2020

European Day of Languages: Multilingual Europe becomes increasingly Anglophone

In this month’s edition of the European Magnifying Glass, we explore the big cultural events which fill the European calendar. This article focuses on the European Day of Languages which takes place on 26th September. Whilst the European Council and the European Union clearly assert their (...)

Friday 27 November 2020

The European Green Capital Award: A Real Force for Promoting Environmental Protection

On October 8th, Grenoble, a French city located in the Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes region, won the European Green Capital Award for 2022. The title, awarded by the European Commission since 2008, is given to cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants which are pursuing particularly ambitious (...)

Thursday 26 November 2020

Berlin, Venice, Cannes: the eternal guardians of European cinema?

This month’s European Magnifying Glass looks at European events

Wednesday 25 November 2020
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