Niki Marangou was due to be reading at Europa literarisch in Berlin on 4 June. The Cypriot writer and painter died in a car accident on 7 February in the Egyptian city of Al-Fayyūm. On 4 June, Europa literarisch pays tribute to her life and her work together with her long-time friend Joachim Sartorius.

Every year poses challenges to Europe – to politicians, social workers, historians, academics and of course, our citizenry, with different backgrounds. Can we meet those challenges, and can we say that we live in harmony today, and if not, can we identify the formulas for attempting this.

On 12 December 2012 around 80 experts from the fields of European cultural affairs and (European) external cultural relations, including representatives of cultural institutions and members of academia, met at the conference “European external cultural relations: Expectations from the outside” in order to discuss the perceptions and expectations for European external cultural relations from the outside, in particular in countries in Asia and Africa, since many European cultural co-operation projects focus on those regions.

EUNIC Days – Art in Movement is a 10-day film festival organized by EUNIC in Turkey in 4 major cities in the North of Turkey: Sinop, Trabzon, Ordu, and Erzurum. In each city, 15 European films are showed in 10 days. One Austrian, two British, two French, two German, two Greek, two Italian, two Romanian and two Portuguese. (You will find the list and details below). The festival aims at promoting the European culture, and the European cinema in particular, showing its richness and variety in Turkey. It aims at reinforcing the bonds between the inhabitants of these 4 major Turkish cities and Europe.