A short walk from where I live opposite Amsterdam’s Central Station brings you to numerous locations associated with the slave trade between West Africa and the West Indies, Brazil and Surinam. Amsterdam city was itself co-owner of Surinam, and meetings…
Can Europe be awakened, revived or saved? Or is the ‘post-Christian’ continent, the former heart of Christendom, doomed to be overrun by Moslems and ‘barbarians’, following Turkey and North Africa? The latter is feared by many swayed by populist voices…
Bold and enticing, the innovative Helsinki Central Library is a ‘city living room’ for young and old, families and students, teens and grandparents with infants, hanging out together in contented ambience. In the Finnish capital for the State of Europe Forum,…
Is Europe really on the edge? President Macron seems to think so. He recently warned his fellow European leaders that NATO was ‘brain dead’, and if they continued to bury their heads in the sand, Europe (read ‘EU’) would become…
The last of a series about the spiritual revolution behind the collapse of communism 30 years ago. A decade after the annus mirabilis of 1989, which saw the Marxist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe collapse like a house of cards, the…
