Building Europe, democracy and civil society from Russia to Balkans
The Schools of Political Studies of the Council of Europe - Interviews
Denis Rolland, Janina Duda, Luisa Fenu, Irène Marsili, Raluka Mihaila, Marie Neihouser and Giulia Pastor
L’Harmattan, April 2011, Paris
The Council of Europe is an integration institution created in 1949, comprising 47 countries and is independent of the European Union. Its political vocation has been invigorated by the fall of Communism in Europe at the beginning of 1990s.
Among its activities, the Council promotes the Schools of Political Studies or Schools for Democracy at the borders of the European Union. Under its starry flag of democracy, the Council has supported (since 1992 and the creation of the Moscow school) series of meetings and formation of acting young political figures as well as the civil society actors who are based in 16 countries, fromthe Balkans to the Caucasus.
This book, primarily consisting of interviews, provides insight into that network which plays in an informal yet at times complex way an essential role in bringing closer the European Union and its border territories, both the internal and external ones, in terms of politics and values.
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