New publication by Professor BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI: "Europe's Wealth of Civic Traditions"

Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI, Chairholder of the EP Geremek Chair of European Civilization at the Natolin (Warsaw) campus of the College of Europe, contributed a paper to the conference "Citizen Matters: Views and Perspectives on European Citizenship" held at the European Parliament on 10 December 2014.

              

The title of the article is "Europe's Wealth of Civic Traditions: The Case of Polish-Lithuanian Republicanism". A revised and expanded version of the paper is now available here.

      

Summary:

Citing Václav HAVEL, Professor BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI argues that Europeans' agreement to multi-layered sovereignties depends on their identification with European citizenship. That in turn requires an openness to the abundance of civic values found, but too rarely appreciated, right across Europe. Professor BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI then makes a case for the relevance of the civic republicanism of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries to the cause of European citizenship in the twenty-first century.