Cultural & Educational Rights in the Enlarged Europe Hardcover – June 15, 2005 by Jan De Groof (Author), Gracienne Lauwers (Author)

If I were to begin again, I would begin with culture , said Jean Monnet, the founding father of the European Economic Community.
Nevertheless, the European Union is still seen by most citizens as a mere functional arrangement facilitating free trade and mutual co-operation. On the economy, the success of the single market is widely acknowledged. The European Community has also proven effective as a peace project a framework within which national identities, and some of the conflicts they can generate, have been tempered by the consciousness of being European.

However, we have more to do on cultural diversity. Whereas the first responsibility for the realization of cultural and educational rights obligations still lies with the state, a prominent place to education and culture could be laid down in the constitutional Treaty whereby governments could be held accountable for their performance in the field of cultural rights while at the same time elaborating a template for cultural co-existence with which citizens and states can identify.

This book contains the proceedings by scholars from various European countries which were delivered at the European Cultural and Educational Forum in Bruges, 2002 and 2003, organized by the European Association for Education Law and Policy in co-operation with the College of Europe.

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