EUNIC Cluster Canada

The European Book Club Ottawa, where EUNIC members such as The Austrian Cultural Forum, The Romanian Cultural Institute, Instituto Camões of Portugal, Societá Dante Alighieri, Embassy of the Republic of Poland and The French Embassy participate actively, presents its upcoming events: 

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, along with EUNIC in Toronto formed by Alliance Française, Toronto, Camões Toronto, Goethe-Institut, Toronto and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, invites to their next book club meeting for the presentation and discussion of In the Sea there are Crocodiles (Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli) by Fabio Geda, led by Laura D’Aprile. 

 
A cooperation of EUNIC in Vancouver: The Alliance Française, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, and the Goethe-Institut. "Ruhm," according to its subtitle, is a “novel in nine stories”. Fame and facelessness, truth and deception, spin their way through all episodes of this captivating, wickedly funny, and perpetually surprising novel as paths cross and plots thicken, as characters become real people and real people morph into characters. Nine episodes array gradually to a novelistic whole picture: a clever game with reality and fiction. The result is a dazzling tour de force by one of Europe’s finest young writers.

 Copies of the book (published by Vintage) can be ordered online with Amazon.ca or ordered through your local bookstore. 
 

Even though cultural issues are mainly, but not entirely, the sole concern of the individual member-states of the European Union (EU), cultural promotion at the international level does provide the EU with a peculiar role. With the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the international presence of the EU is further increased through the European External Action Service (EEAS) which does contribute to the cultural promotion efforts of the member states as well. Furthermore, the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU is also responsible for the execution of common European cultural events all around the world. In general, it could be argued that it is important for both the member-states and the EU itself to coordinate their activities in the area of cultural promotion in order to increase the awareness of the EU and its constituencies.