The Festival | One Week. One Europe. | Berlin 2012

Barcelona, July 21 2010 // The 7th of July 2010 will always remain a milestone for The Festival project. This is the day when we really “went public” for the first time. We presented the project at TEDxBarcelona. 600 TED fans confirmed with their positive reactions throughout the entire presentation that The Festival is definitely an idea worth spreading. Thank you, TEDxBarcelona!

Barcelona, June 28 2010 // We have been granted the magnificient opportunity to present our movement to 680 guests at the upcoming TEDx event in Barcelona on July 7 2010. The 15-20 minute presentation titled “Europe - how to unleash a common spirit” will also be transmitted to the Internet via live stream.

Rome, March 7 2010 // With style and to the point. It seems as if our newest family member Paolo Petrocelli from Rome knew exactly where and how he wants to contribute to the European world of music. A musician, journalist, marketing manager of an incredible Italian symphonic orchestra and an enthusiastic European - what else can we ask for…

Berlin, September 29 2009 // On September 30th the new debate portal for the German market - The European - goes online. Of course, The European has been media partner of The Festival “before birth”. We wish our friends all the best for the launch.

Brussels, July 16 2009 // New Europe - the European Weekly, and The Festival have agreed to launch a media partnership which will provide the newspaper with first-hand insights about active citizenship in Europe and promote The Festival movement among New Europe’s readers.

More than any regulation, norm, treaty, or even a common currency could ever accomplish, music has always touched the hearts of people. We needed a song, a hymn for our pro-European movement. There has never been an uplifting, authentic, pro-European song out there which could hit the dance floors across the continent. We needed a producer…

Cicero, ZDF, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Alexander Goerlach has published in a number of Germany’s most prestigious media. Focused on politics, society, ethics and sustainability, he thinks that “The Festival will strengthen the ties between pro-European people and it will show the magnitude of common cultural values.”

Created in 2001 mainly by Erasmus students, cafebabel.com has its central European office in Paris. Together with an ever-expanding network of local offices across Europe, the first multilingual European current affairs magazine can truly claim to be the voice of the ‘euro-generation’.

“So far, there hasn’t been any comparable people-driven initiative to deal with Europe. My vision of Europe in 2020 is a place that is radically open: politically, culturally as well as historically - towards its past, present and future.”

Nicholas Newman, Editor of Oxford Prospect magazine, writes extensively for European publications on EU energy, transport and economic development issues, with special emphasis on the geo-political and economic realities that underlie current policies.
Nicholas, an Oxford based freelance journalist, has been Editor of OxfordProspect & Headington Forum magazines since 1999 and also writes for broadsheet papers, [...]