This
website is a forum for all those who
would like to invent themselves, their
communities, villages, cities, countries,
or their region: Central Europe.
To this day, there are tens of thousands of people living in the sewage system that underlies the city of Bucharest. Apparently, no less than 8,000 of them are children and minors. They mostly make their living from theft and begging. The Parada Foundation provides them with a chance to start a normal life. – A report by Alpár Gellért.
Just imagine how difficult it must be to say in front of the cameras, "I am sorry but I did not want my son to be born. I am ashamed of it, but that's the truth." And your son is still alive and is sitting in front of the television when you are making this confession. - An interview with Bucarest film director Florin Iepan.
Our Brussels correspondent on the new European Neighbourhood Policy: an extended 'circle of friends' for the neighbours of the new members or the expansion of the EU in the sphere of interest of others?
The whole of our world is a little bit second hand, a little bit second rate. This also means that we lack the insensitive arrogance which characterises new things. After all, nothing could be sadder than a novelty which we know will be useless before it grows genuinely old. - An interview with Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk.
In 1991 Jurij Andruhovich wrote: "Ukraine is not yet living in its own cities." Several years later he added: "Today my expectations are much more pessimistic, and I really doubt the children of my children will be the inhabitants of Ukrainian cities."
It does not take a great organisation to create a great thing. Our water tourism associations can serve as a model to other non-profit organisations, proving that co-operation over national boundaries is a realistic option.
The map of Europe is being redrawn. "Euroregions" are emerging, which connect more and more citizens, municipalities, institutions, NGOs across the borders. These regions may become those islands of excellence that could renew our continent.
Mountains
cannot be surmounted except by winding
paths.
