Enlargement is Robert Menasse's second major EU book. In it, the award-winning author describes \u201ea story of biblical drasticness, which is contrasted with the legal views of the political organisation to which Menasse has dedicated himself as a committed intellectual\u201c. (FAZ) Menasse emphasises the contradiction that you can win national elections within the EU with anti-European rhetoric, while you can win elections outside the EU by sending out pro-European signals. What does that do to people here and there?<\/p>\n
Using Albania as an example, Menasse not only tells of the hopes and disappointments of those who stand before Fortress Europe. He also writes about the so-called \u201eoath virgins\u201c - an old Albanian tradition in which women declare themselves to be men. For Menasse, this is a good contribution to the transgender debate. What are the EU's values? What can members and candidate countries learn from each other?<\/p>\n
Robert Menasse<\/strong> is a Viennese writer who has received numerous awards for his novels. He received the German Book Prize in 2017 for his first major EU novel \u201eDie Hauptstadt\u201c and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book of 2022 for his second major European novel \u201eDie Erweiterung\u201c.<\/p>\n Tessa Szyszkowitz<\/strong> is a journalist and author, based in London since 2010. Before that, she was a correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Jerusalem. She writes regularly for Falter, profil & Cicero, is curator of the Philoxenia series at the Kreiskyforum and a Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tessa Szyszkowitz in Konversation mit Robert Menasse DIE ERWEITERUNG Soll die Europ\u00e4ische Union weitere Mitglieder aufnehmen? Die Erweiterung ist bereits das zweite gro\u00dfe EU-Buch von Robert Menasse. Der preisgekr\u00f6nte Autor beschreibt darin \u201eeine Geschichte von biblischer Drastik, die kontrastiert wird mit den Rechtsauffassungen jener politischen Organisation, der sich Menasse als engagierter Intellektueller verschrieben hat.\u201c (FAZ) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4832,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4831","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n