"Die Päpste, Europas Einigung und ein zerrissener Kontinent. Eine Zwischenbilanz im Lichte der gegenwärtigen Krisen in Kirche und Welt" by Ludger Kühnhardt
The relationship of the Popes to the continent of Europe has been and remains ambivalent. It oscillates between the global orientation of the Roman Catholic Church and the defense of the faith, but also between a reserved and skeptical attitude towards Western modernity and an almost naïve hope for ecumenical dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church. In the midst of the current global political crisis, ZEI Director Ludger Kühnhardt reconstructs the perspectives of seven popes during seven decades of European unity and the ongoing disunity of the European continent.
"Europäische Integration aus historischer Erfahrung. Ein Zeitzeugengespräch mit Michael Gehler" by Ralf Dahrendorf
This interview takes place within the framework of the contemporary witness interviews "European Integration from Historical Experience", which attempts to record all former commissioners from Germany in interview form. In the case of already deceased commissioners, the conversations were reconstructed retrospectively on the basis of their contemporary interviews, publications, writings and works. In the footnotes to the answers, the year of the statement is given in brackets, so that a historical classification is possible. The answers have been taken over tel quel as they were in the original.