Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det giver stort indtryk om lige præcis hvor imponerende EU er efter tusinde år af mere eller mindre konstant krig i Europa.
Jeg får også lyst til at starte en ny europæisk bogklub til at lære om vores fælles europæisk naboer samt læse nogle gode bøger jeg ellers ville aldrig har kommer til. Nogen der har lyst til at komme og læse med i hovedstaden?

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I’ve almost finished a short history of Italy, and it really brings home just how impressive the EU is after a thousand years of more or less constant war in Europe.
I’m now also keen to join/start a European book club to learn about our fellow European neighbours and read some good books I’d otherwise never get round to. Anyone fancy joining me in or around Copenhagen?

#bookstodon #bogstodon #dkæs

@Ruth_Mottram I'd be up for that. Great idea! What was the book?
@shivering_wreck this one!
I was thinking of a mix of novels and non fiction maybe once a month at one of our lovely libraries..
@Ruth_Mottram looks good. And yes, the libraries are fantastic. Special shout out to Valby and Sydhavn libraries. This I can get on board with. I have been thinking of joining a book club again and a mix of fiction and non-fiction would be great. Also with the European theme.

@Ruth_Mottram indeed. Despite wars in former Yugoslavia, suppression of democratic uprising in former Warsaw Pact states, minor secessionary violence in places like Euskadi and Ireland, and now war in Ukraine, Europe has had almost 80 years of almost stable peace — something it has never seen before in the whole of recorded history.

Not bad going for a free trade area.

Mind you, beyond Europe's borders, European countries have engaged in wars across the global south.