Capital of culture or bastion of the faithful?

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A general view shows the Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) in Marseille Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier Each year, the European Union chooses one or more European cities to be named as Culture Capital of ...

Valletta celebrated its formal designation as a European Capital of Culture for 2018 this morning, as the third edition of the Imagine 18 event drew to a close. The Maltese capital had been a candidate Capital of Culture until its status was made ...

Valletta has officialy being declared the European Capital City of Culture 2018. Malta received this title this moring during a meeting with the council of Ministers responsible for Culture in Brusells. The Parliamentary Secretary for Culture, Jose ...

Theme: Culture, Society & History It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. Its nuclear arsenal held45,000 warheads, and its military hadfive ...

The magnificent Gothic Cathedral of St Elizabeth in Košice, Slovak Republic, became the glowing centrepiece of the city's Opening Ceremony celebrations for its year as European Capital of Culture in a spectacular lighting scheme featuring Robe and ...

The European Youth Capital (EYC) project in Maribor, which was suspended some two weeks ago over financial shortage and bad management, will be resumed, Maribor Mayor Andrej Fištravec told youth organisations on Wednesday. However, the project will ...

Samuel Gregg's new book, Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture and How America Can Avoid a European Future, is a bad book. Its principal shortcomings are its tendentious portrayal of the values that animate those of us who champion the modern ...

In 1947, when Europe was recuperating from the blows of the Second World War, a cultural initiative was planned to celebrate European cultural life and was called the Edinburgh International Festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited to perform and ...