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Is Europe’s cultural soul being quietly erased? This explosive report exposes how the European Union is strategically co-opting culture to advance a radical social and political agenda. It uncovers how Brussels manipulates language, redefines heritage, and channels billions through programs like Creative Europe to promote its vision of a post-national society.
Drawing unsettling parallels with the linguistic tactics of totalitarian regimes, the report argues that the EU’s focus on “diversity,” “inclusion,” and “intercultural dialogue” comes at the cost of Europe’s foundational traditions, unique cultural values, and even basic concepts of language. It examines how the New European Agenda for Culture and the Creative Europe funding program are prioritizing themes like migration, gender ideology, and environmentalism, overshadowing and even undermining Europe’s JudeoChristian and Enlightenment heritage.
This report explores the dystopian jargon emerging from EU-funded projects, where concepts like “cultural ecosystems” and the “de-elitisation of culture” serve a broader political purpose. Terms like “nation” are seemingly avoided, while buzzwords associated with a specific ideological viewpoint are promoted.
However well-intentioned, are these initiatives be masking a systematic erosion of European cultural identity, leading to a dangerous state of “cultural nihilism”? This report dares to ask whether the EU’s pursuit of “unity in diversity” has morphed into a project of cultural transformation that could ultimately erase Europe’s true self.
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About the author
Katalin Deme is responsible for expanding MCC Brussel's academic network and promoting events in the fields of history, memory culture and the arts. A native of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, she is one of the founders of the first Slovak Jewish museums in Presov and Bratislava.
