Mercy! Mercy!
Professor, Do You Understand the World?
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The collapse of Yugoslavia shows the writing on the wall. It began with the aim to centralise and standardise education policy and culture. It failed. Europe should learn from this. The European Union’s tendency to centralise and standardise culture by means of an affirmative policy is obvious. The price is high. Uniformity is moving in where there was once diversity, PR and propaganda where there was once discourse in and about Europe. Europe is threatening to degenerate into an empty phrase, the freedom of culture into farce.
(Osteuropa 2-3/2009, pp. 229–236)