Democracy? I don’t think there is - if you like - a real democracy. Democracy is always an ongoing project which involves real people and real partners and real antagonistic forces. But real democracy is not a possibility. I think democracy starts when real democracy - stops.
Europe, what does it means for you?
Europe. Europe… Unfinished business.
Imagine tomorrow, how would you like to live?
Tomorrow… I would like to live in a flat somewhere in the centre of this or some other city. A small not really big flat and have the possibility to travel and some other intimate things, that I don’t like to go into.
Kostis Stafylakis (artist, art theoretician, Athens)
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Real democracy, what could it be in your opinion?
An amusement park...
What does Europe mean for you?
Europe is this strange place, which is growing all the time, because they're
more and more new countries there.
Imagine tomorrow, how would you like to live?
Tomorrow I would like to have a big studio, works in a lot of collections,
no politicians around and a lot of sunshine.
Luchezar Boyadjiev (artist, Sofia)
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Real democracy, what could it be in your opinion?
What kind of democracy? The democracy - no democracy? The democracy that feels compassion for the people, not to pursuit us, all these things. I think, this is a very fine idea of democracy. It is always good to think about it.
Europe, what does it means (for you)?
Europe means this.
Imagine tomorrow, how would you like to live?
I can imagine a project, what I see now. I can imagine a Europe with many tribes, many nations, many religions - a global Europe, but also very local, very national, with its own identities, its own languages.
Nikos Xydakis (chief editor of newspaper “Kathimerini”, Athens)
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Real democracy, what could it be in your opinion?
The representative power of the people, of the demos.
Europe what does it mean for you?
Culture on one side, and borders on the other side.
Imagine tomorrow, how would you like to live?
With a nice everyday life, like a pleasant everyday life.
Dr. Natalia Ribas-Mateos (Universidad de A Coruña (ESOMI, Equipo de Sociología de las migraciones internacionales), visiting Professor at the University of Meknes in Morocco)
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Interviews: Inka Thunecke, Mathias Richter
