Съветът на Европа: от пропилени надежди към откриване и преоткриване на своята мисия
The council of Europe: From spent hopes to discovering and rediscovering its mission

Author(s): Nikola Avreyski
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Comparative history, History of ideas, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Издателска къща "Гутенберг"
Keywords: Churchill; European Union; European history of the 20th century;
Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to the process of inception, contradictory development, topical condition and the main problems of one of the most authoritative international organisations, the Council of Europe. It follows the movement of ideas regarding its different visions: the initial hopes that it will achieve the centennial idea for unification of Western Europe, the subsequent disappointment and its transformationa into a second-tier West European organization, its development after the Cold War as prestigious 'club of European democracies' and a sort of first anteroom to the European Union. Some of the main problems it faces as challenges in the XXI c., particularly the policy of protection of national minorities, the application of double standards and the notion that precisely this organization outlines the visible frontiers of United Europe, have been analyzed.

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