Koks akademinės visuomenės vaidmuo puoselėjant ir stiprinant ES? Atsakymas paprastas: daugiakalbio, tolerantiško, smalsaus ir liberaliai mąstančio europiečio ugdymas.Taip, mes visi žinome nesuskaičiuojamą daugybę pokštų apie tai, kaip nėra prasmės tikėtis pajusti gerklėje gumulą klausantis Europos himno, arba kaip beprasmiška stengtis sukurti kažką panašaus į europinį patriotizmą. Šiais juokeliais siekiama pašiepti siekį sukurti europinį tapatumą Europoje kaip simbolinėje vertybių ir idėjų erdvėje. (Tęsti...)

By Leonidas Donskis
The great Russian humanist, dissident and Human Rights defender Andrei Sakharov, in whose name the supreme EP award in the sphere of the defense of Human Rights was initiated, when asked about what kind of universal ideology could be adopted by humanity in the future, described the universality of Human Rights and our commitment to defend them as the only set of values and ideas capable of bridging the gulfs and reconciling the opposites. (Tęsti...)

By Leonidas Donskis
The Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s plane crash on April 10, 2010, on the day marking the 70th anniversary of one of the worst war crimes of the twentieth century, in the unholy Katyn, a tragedy that cost Poland no less than the loss of the country’s elite, left quite a rich soil for speculation and conspiracy theories. In contrast with the pragmatic prime minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, the fiercely nationalistic and conservative Lech Kaczynski was intensely hated by the Kremlin.  (Tęsti...)

By Leonidas Donskis
During a recent conference on human rights and values in Lithuania and in the EU, the question was asked whether our values in Lithuania are the same as those in the EU. This is hardly  an irrelevant question keeping in mind what happened in Vilnius on March 11. A group of young people was marching in the city center celebrating the Independence Day of Lithuania with the sinister slogan “Lithuania for Lithuanians.” (Tęsti...)

By Leonidas Donskis
Raison ou trahison? Reason or treason? What happened to France? Did we witness one more time the art of maneuvering of the Gaullist France that will never confine herself to the role of a midwife of American politics? (Tęsti...)

By Leonidas Donskis
A sinister tendency is increasingly getting stronger in the twenty-first-century world. Politicians are on the way to monopolizing two domains that serve as a new source of inspiration: namely, privacy and history. Birth, death, and sex constitute the new frontiers on the political battlefields. (Tęsti...)

By Leonidas Donskis
We are witnessing how a sinister tendency is increasingly getting stronger in the U.S. and in Europe. Politicians find themselves preoccupied with two domains that serve as a new source of inspiration, namely: privacy and history. Birth, death and sex constitute the new frontiers on the political battlefields. (Tęsti...)