nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170113-172743 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170113s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170113-172743 doi eng 342 23 Avbelj, Matej Author aut The Ljubljana Initiative for Re-Launching the European Integration Avbelj, Matej Verfassungsblog 2017-01-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It is a sign of unconventional times when earnest people wish you a less exciting year 2017 compared to the one that has just, luckily, passed. Starting a new year, a less exciting one then, is an opportunity for reckoning about the past and for charting the plans for the future. For those who care about the project of European integration, these are no easy moments. By looking back we are reminded about the chain of crises that has been strangling the Union. By looking forward we cannot help ourselves but to wring hands at what is yet to follow. It is high time that this self-destructive European (indeed Western) narrative and, unfortunately, praxis were put to a halt. It is high time to present a positive alternative to the present status quo and to the populist decay. It is high time to re-launch the process of European integration. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 euro crisis European Integration Ljublana Initiative Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-ljubljana-initiative-for-re-launching-the-european-integration/ raw object