News
November 19, 2009
Belgian PM is first 'president of Europe'
Belgium’s prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, has been appointed the first “president of Europe,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.
Categories: News from Europe
November 17, 2009
After Quake in Italy, Seeking Greener Pastures
L’AQUILA, Italy — On a recent autumn afternoon, half a year after a devastating earthquake struck here, a small flock of sheep and goats made its way through the ghostly, ravaged center of this ancient hilltop city. Read More;
Categories: News from Europe
November 13, 2009
Germany leads eurozone out of recession
Frankfurt, Germany/Paris, France — The eurozone escaped recession in the third quarter, with Germany’s recovery gaining strength, but the rebound was less dramatic than expected and less strong than in the US.
Categories: News from Europe
November 09, 2009
Islam and Contemporary European Literature Featured at Notre Dame
On November 16-17, the University of Notre Dame will host a symposium on “The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature.” The first jointly-sponsored conference by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the symposium will bring Europe’s most prominent Muslim and Muslim-born writers to discuss the place of Islam in their work.
Categories: Institute News
November 06, 2009
Reflections on the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20 years later
University of Notre Dame political scientist James McAdams recalls the first time he stepped over the border from West Germany to East Germany in 1973 as a 19-year-old college student studying in West Berlin.
“The first time I entered East Berlin, it felt like I was going to an anti-Disneyland. It was like going from color television in West Berlin to black and white in East Berlin,” says McAdams, the William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and director of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
Categories: Institute News
November 03, 2009
Czechs sign EU Lisbon Treaty
Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty Tuesday,which could effectively give the EU a president and a foreign minister. Read More
Categories: News from Europe
October 24, 2009
One fifth of electorate consider voting BNP
(October 24, Times Online) One fifth of the UK electorate would consider voting for the BNP (British National Party) in the wake of Nick Griffin’s Question Time appearance, according to a poll.
Categories: News from Europe
October 22, 2009
Historian Jan Gross to speak on Holocaust in Poland
Jan Tomasz Gross, Norman B. Tomlinson ’16 and ’48 Professor of War and Society and professor of history at Princeton University, will give a lecture titled “On Holocaust’s Periphery: Poles and Their Jewish Neighbors” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 27) in the University of Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall auditorium.
Gross, a native of Warsaw, was born shortly after World War II. His mother had fought in the Polish resistance, risking her life to ensure the survival of his father, a Polish Jew and a member of the underground Polish Socialist Party.
Categories: Institute News
October 20, 2009
Pope Paves Way for Anglicans to Enter Church
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 20, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Groups of Anglicans will now be able to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the Anglican spiritual and liturgical tradition.
