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Discover the #VIADUCT_EU Network!

As we reach the close of our project, check out all the members of our consortium!

More info can always be found on our website: https://t.co/VVxwGWryNn

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First up, CETEUS, a 2016-founded centre and Jean Monnet Chair for Turkey and European Union Studies (MONTEUS) at @UniCologne

https://t.co/Dkuhlm7zsJ

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The European Centre at POLIS was established in 2013 and brings together research andevents on European affairs. It sits within the Department of Politics and International Studies of @Cambridge_Uni

https://t.co/Y3Jvt8FEZs

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Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) founded in 1348, is one of the oldest universities in the world and a top-ranked European educational and scientific institution @StudyInPragueCZ

https://t.co/r50mUwXgwN

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The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (@eliamepgr) is a private, independent, nonprofit- making think tank, established in Athens, Greece, in 1988

https://t.co/LUGoP3SY6b

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Patriotism is an interesting concept in that it’s excepted to mean something positive to all of us and certainly seen as a morally marketable trait that can fit into any definition you want for it.+


Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+

It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+

My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.

But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+

Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+