About the Project

The New Europe Journal (NEJ) is a Belarusian Internet project that is focused on political, social and cultural issues. NEL daily updates include analytical materials, comments, essays and discussions. The project aims to provide news and information about cultural, public and political life in Belarus and in the world.

The New Europe Journal is a member of the international association Project Syndicate.

Goals

The goal of the project is to facilitate integration of Belarus into the European sphere, strengthening of pro-Europe aspirations in the Belarusian society and shaping of European identity of Belarusians.

We believe that feasibility of this goal to a significant extent depends on the ability of the intellectual elite to create favorable conditions for legitimating the idea of European Belarus. Intellectual legitimization is, fist of all, a framing of a public consensus about the cultural, historical and political path of Belarus.

The major step for accomplishing this goal is the inclusion of Belarusian public sphere into the informational and intellectual context of the modern Europe. To take this step, it is necessary, on one side, to have an accurate understanding and knowledge about current processes of European integration, and on another side, conceive of ourselves as Europeans, which means examining ourselves (and the world) from the “European standpoint”.

“European standpoint” means that we share such mainframe values as human rights and liberties, non-violence principle in all spheres of public and private interactions, tolerance of alternative forms of life, rule of law and accountability of governments to civil society.

We believe that intellectual legitimization of the idea of European Belarus is only possible through the free public discussion between all interested parties. Our Project is one of the many grounds where this discussion is starting to take place.

To contact the editors: send a letter to ne(at)n-europe.eu

Our Partners

CaféBabel in Vilnius
IPM Research Center
Project Syndicate
IISEPS
Center for International Research
Youth Educational Club NEWLINE
Informational and Analytical Portal «POLITICS» (Ukraine)