Mémoire Routes Memory

  Earlier, in this same room, it was referred to the fact that the relationship “ Culture – Europe – Citizenship ” should absolutely be a part of the city space. In my opinion, this statement is perfectly exact, adequate and correct. Nevertheless, as I have spent most of my own life in an East-European country in which over half the population lives not “ in a rural environment ” but simply in the countryside – in the most original, primordial and plain meaning of this word – I can not ignore the fact that also for those people who live there, the question of European citizenship should be raised in comparable terms. This is even more true as the problems they are confronted to seem to be similar to those that occur in most of the European countries. This conclusion belongs in fact, to an East-European group of specialists in architecture and heritage. This team, of which I used to be a member, has found an apparently simple phenomenon: now, or more precisely after the fall of th...

  A – MAIN TRENDS - PRELIMINARY AND A PRIORI  REMARKS   A – 1 Methodology   The preparation of a report intended towards evaluation of present state in bi or multilateral co-operation regarding cultural heritage between 31 European countries in such a very short delay needed to follow drastic choices and to establish a system of priorities.     Our work was based on various approaches   :     -        Interviews by phone or in the direct presence of persons in charge of European co-operation in specialised ministries (Directorates for heritage, architecture, environment or European integration…).       -        Analysis of data bases on European heritage policies and of the documents gathered by the European Institute of cultural routes since six years and through the experience of various partners belonging to more than twenty networks engag...