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Joining forces for Europe

The current climate in Europe creates space and urgency for new thinking, readiness for experimentation and risks. Our vision is ambitious. In order to make an impact, we focus on and mobilise creative initiatives to share our vision and goals. Under the 2018 theme Courageous Citizens, we continued successful initiatives, nurtured existing partnerships and created new ones, and scaled ideas and projects. Find out more about our programmes in detail: browse our Annual Report online, and explore the features in our Annual Magazine.

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"We need broad, inclusive and open conversations
about where Europe needs adjusting,
what Europe has brought us all
and how such conversations can further
our solidarity and empathy.
History has shown that we can only face
the tremendous challenges we are living through
in a sustainable manner by joining forces."

HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, President of the Board

Keeping up the big debate about Europe

During the last weeks and months, we have witnessed one of the biggest transnational debates in Europe ever. The debate was about jobs, migration, inequality, tax evasion, crime rates, the climate and about the explosive content of a videotape from Ibiza. Should Europe become more national or more European? Or simply more local? Should people continue to move freely or should this freedom be restricted? Should the internet be free like the wild West or state controlled like in China? Is Europe actually bigger than Brussels and how big is Brussels really? These and many others were the issues of the big debate about Europe.

Read the full opinion piece by director André Wilkens

Lost in Media Book Launch

You are invited to the launch of our new publication Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere on Friday evening 28 June at De Balie Amsterdam.

The book gathers critical responses to the representations of migrants in the media in Europe through nine essays by prominent writers, artists and journalists. This evening we will be joined by a.o. Moha Gerehou (journalist at eldiario.es and activist at Federación SOS Racismo in Spain), Nesrine Malik (British-Sudanese columnist and features writer for The Guardian), Daniel Trilling (journalist and editor of New Humanist Magazine), and Crystal Genesis (journalist and curator, founder of Stance Podcast).