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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11574

17 June 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 1 / 38
BEACONS
(AE) BEACONS: Ernest Renan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and “Brexit”

In his latest book, Un fauteuil sur la scène (Gresset), Amin Maalouf looks back over four centuries of French history, painting the picture of the eighteen figures who, from 1634, occupied the 29th chair of the Académie française. He looks back on Ernest Renan who, while perfectly reasonably believing that a nation is a daily plebiscite, was very wary of “universal suffrage which, in his view, gave too much power to the uneducated popular masses, 'devoid of any ideal', he said and...

Contents

BEACONS
EXTERNAL ACTION
ECONOMY - FINANCE
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SECTORAL POLICIES
BREACHES OF EU LAW
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
INSTITUTIONAL
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
NEWS BRIEFS