The majority of the norms that shape our everyday lives come directly or indirectly from the European Union. Reason to set out on a journey through 101 EUropean spotlights.
Gabriel N. Toggenburg
Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Head of Sector Human Rights Structures and Mechanisms at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, has dealt in his earlier professional life in depth with European Union law and the issue of minorities in Europe, including in connection with the “Package for Europe” and with the European Citizens’ Initiative “Minority Safepack”.
In an honorary and strictly private capacity he regularly illuminates the EU from the most diverse perspectives, for instance in the column “Europasplitter” of the daily newspaper “Dolomiten”. “The “Europasplitter” is not only good and easy to read,” says the South Tyrolean governor Arno Kompatscher, “but is also convincing through the use of vivid images, linguistic wit and subtle humor, which, however, is never at the expense of the scientifically sound presentation.”
With the booklet “101 Views on the Europe of the EU” Autonomy Experience wants to carry the idea of European integration forward with conviction and expertise.
Gabriel N. Toggenburg himself writes: “This small collection of newspaper articles, which all appeared in the daily newspaper “Dolomiten” as parts of the column “Europasplitter”, is meant to give one or the other explanation about the Europe of the EU. But first and foremost it should arouse curiosity and a desire for “more”. For “the EU” is not the alleged administrative water head in Brussels….. It is a living conglomerate of 27 member states, 250 regions, almost 90,000 municipalities and nearly 450 million EU citizens. Perhaps the following 101 glimpses of the Europe of the EU can provide an impetus to take an interest in European interrelationships, because: the EU, that is also ourselves!”
The booklet is written in German