As part of the public consultation on its Complaints Mechanism, the EIB will organise a meeting on 29 June 2017 in Brussels. This meeting is open to all interested stakeholders and offers the opportunity to exchange directly with EIB staff about the Bank’s Complaints Mechanism policy and the key issues at stake within the review.
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From the early 18th century, Europe promised modernity, prosperity and freedom.
Europe saw its deepest economic crisis since 1929 and the resurrection of Europe’s worst demons, starting with nationalism, the demon of division and of discord.
A few years ago, George Steiner made an attempt to define a European identity at a seminar entitled “The Idea of Europe.” There, he argued that our continent can be reduced to five axioms. The first is that Europe is its cafés, those places where people conspire and write and debate, and where great philosophies, artistic movements and ideological and aesthetic revolutions were born. The second axiom is that Europe is its domesticated and walkable environment, a human-scale landscape in contrast to the huge and impassable wilds of Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania. The third is that Europe is a place rich in history, a vast lieu de la mémoire whose streets and squares are littered with names harking back to an ever-present past that is both luminous and suffocating.
The fourth is that Europe has a twofold contradictory and inseparable inheritance: that of Athens and Jerusalem, of Socrates and Jesus Christ, of reason and vision. The fifth is that Europe is its eschatological self-awareness, the awareness of its own mortality, of the dark certainty that whatever begins must have a more or less tragic finality.
An Aid to Stop AIDS – With Jennifer Jako
Jennifer Jako, AIDS advocate, filmmaker and photographer, came to the EIB to commemorate World AIDS Day 2019. She shared her personal story and her commitment to AIDS education and prevention.