Imagine Europe. The search for European Identity and Spirituality (SPES-Cahiers, nr. 3)

This Cahier gathers a selection of papers presented
during the fourth annual European SPES conference
The European Identity in Business and Social Ethics
(Leuven, 2007).

All authors share the idea of Europe as a space of
unity-in-diversity based on relations of reciprocity and
fraternity. They see it as Europe’s mission to enlarge
its post-war idea of peace and integration into a global
action. As the construction of the European Union
started in the sphere of economics, but was from the
beginning more than economics, this Cahier calls for
a stronger sense of spiritual commitment and moral
imagination in Europe. It refers to a new generation
of business leaders inspired by the paradigm of spiritcentered
entrepreneurship.

Luk Bouckaert is emeritus professor of ethics at the
Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He is founder
and director of the SPES Academy in Leuven and
president of the European SPES Forum.

Jochanan Eynikel is coordinator of the SPES Academy.
He developed the project Imagine Europe which
involves young people in the creation of a future vision
on Europe.