
Croatian: 
Zašto moramo preispitati budućnost Europe?
Nesrazmjer između toga kako Europu vidimo 
i kako je doživljavamo
nikada nije bio veći.
Hay Festival Europa28 obuhvaća prostor
izvan tradicionalnih europskih središta moći
u kojem 28 spisateljica, novinarki,
umjetnica, znanstvenica i poduzetnica
diljem kontinenta dijeli svoju viziju
o budućnosti Europe.
Kao djevojčica marokanskog podrijetla,
Europu sam vidjela kao svjetionik svijeta.
Ne zbog etniciteta
ili geografskog položaja,
već zbog vrijednosti.
Činila se kao mjesto 
gdje bih mogla biti slobodna žena.
Činila se kao mjesto gdje bih se mogla slobodno
izražavati, gdje bih se mogla boriti za toliko toga

English: 
Why must we rethink Europe's future?
The relation between how Europe is seen 
and how it is experienced
is more tenuous than ever.
Hay Festival Europa28 is a space beyond 
Europe's traditional centres of power
in which 28 women writers, journalists, 
artists, scientists and entrepreneurs from
across the continent share their visions 
for the future of Europe.
As a little girl, 
a Morroccan little girl, for me
Europe was the lighthouse of the world.
It was not a question of ethnicity,
it was not a question of geography,
it was a question of values.
It was a place where 
I could be a free woman.
It was a place where I could have free 
speech, where I would fight for so many

English: 
things and I have the feeling that it 
betrayed me and betrayed the dream
I had when I was a when I was 
a child because it's not that anymore
for so many people.
We tend to think about Europe and our 
current weaknesses and problems in the
very short term. We want to deal 
with our problems in the present time.
And I think this project has allowed us to 
start a discussion about the tendencies
in the long run.
This invitation arrived
more or less on the morning I heard that 
Lyra McKee and journalist in Northern
Ireland had been shot dead by the IRA.
And in the wake of the Brexit vote. And as 
an Irish person living in Europe
- and I should say living in 
London - belonging to Europe

Croatian: 
i osjećam se iznevjerenom, iznevjerila je san
koji sam imala kao dijete
jer mnogima ona više nije to mjesto.
Često o Europi i trenutnim slabostima 
i problemima razmišljamo vrlo kratkoročno.
Želimo se baviti problemima 
s kojima se trenutno susrećemo.
Smatram da nam je ovaj projekt omogućio
da započnemo raspravu o tendencijama
u dugoročnom smislu.
Pozivnicu sam primila onog jutra
kad sam saznala da je Lyru McKee, 
novinarku iz Sjeverne Irske, usmrtila IRA.
I nakon glasovanja o Brexitu, 
i kao Irkinja koja živi u Europi,
odnosno Londonu, 
koji pripada Europi,

English: 
made that more palatable more 
possible and less exclusionary.
The final chapter is a writer from the 
United Kingdom and of course if we do
this project again it's likely that 
chapter will be missing because we
won't be part of Europe.
First, I felt honoured that I am going to 
be representing my country in such
a great, intelligent collective of people.
Then I got terrified because I was 
thinking: what do I have to say about
the future of Europe
given my views for humanity are rather 
pessimistic? But then I took this
as a challenge to go deeper.
2020 has often been referred to as 'The 
Year of the Woman' and I was very happy
to see that this Europa28 
projects greatly supports that idea.

Croatian: 
više nisam mislila da je to 
toliko nevjerojatno ili isključivo.
Posljednje je poglavlje napisala spisateljica iz
Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva i ako se ovaj projekt nastavi,
nažalost, vjerojatno će mu nedostajati poglavlje
jer više nećemo biti dio Europe.
Isprva sam bila počašćena time što ću
predstavljati svoju zemlju među takvom
sjajnom, inteligentnom skupinom ljudi.
Tada sam se prestravila jer sam
pomislila: što ja imam reći
o budućnosti Europe,
ako imam prilično pesimističan pogled
na čovječanstvo?
Ali tada sam to shvatila kao izazov da proniknem dublje.
2020. godina često se naziva Godinom žena 
i bila sam jako sretna
kad sam vidjela da projekt Europa28
uvelike podržava tu ideju.

Croatian: 
Premda se naša povijest, tradicija i društvo razlikuju,
premda se i status žena
razlikuje u svakoj zemlji,
kroz povijest nam je patrijarhat
bio svima zajednički,
i činjenica da kad se u našim zemljama
vodi javna rasprava,
posebice o budućnosti i
našem odnosu s Europom,
raspravom obično dominiraju muški glasovi.
Mislim da je ono što mnogi ne vole kod
Europe, kod europske strukture,
upravo to što se pretvorila u golemu
tehnokratsku superstrukturu
sa strahovito složenom birokracijom
i pretjeranim nadzorom.
Mi, kao građani, sve više osjećamo
raskol između tehnokratske Europe

English: 
Even though we have very different 
histories, traditions and societies, even
though the status of women 
is different in every country,
I thought that we all 
share a history you patriarchy.
And also that in all our countries
when there is public debate
- especially about the future and 
about our relationship to Europe -
it is usually dominated by male voices.
I think what many people dislike about 
Europe, about the European construction,
is precisely that it has become 
a huge technocratic superstructure with
a tremendously complex democracy
and regulatory overkill.
We citizens feel more and more the 
divorce between the technocratic Europe

Croatian: 
koja je iznad nas i slobodne, otvorene,
multikulturalne Europe o kojoj sanjamo.
Na razne je načine
vizija osnivača Europe bila ogroman uspjeh,
a zatim se, naravno, pojavio problem 
da neki ljudi ne uživaju u povlasticama
koje uživaju drugi,
ili ne osjećaju da ih uživaju.
No prvobitna načela zaista jesu bila
uspješna i mislim da ono što trebamo učiniti
jest formulirati nove vizije
u kojima ljudi mogu sudjelovati.
Inicijative poput Europa28 mogu nam poslužiti
da izmijenimo narativ.
Riječi koje upotrebljavamo imaju moć.
Zaista je važno da udružimo snage, 
osobito iz različitih sektora
i potaknemo razgovor o društvenim problemima
s kojima se Europa trenutno suočava
jer je ipak riječ o društvenim pitanjima.

English: 
above us and the free, 
open, multicultural Europe we dream of.
In many ways the visions of the founding 
fathers of Europe have been a tremendous
success and the problem of course that 
then arises is some people don't get
the benefits that others do,
or they don't feel they get them.
But the basic visions really have been 
successful and I think where we need
to take them is to formulate 
new visions that people can participate.
Initiatives like Europa28 can help 
all of us change the narrative.
The words we use have power.
It's really important to start to join 
forces and join forces from different sectors
and try to speak about the 
social issues that Europe faces right now
as they are social issues.

English: 
Let's stop using the 
word refugee or refugee crisis.
It's an issue of social development.
It's an enormous peace project.
That's how it started out.
Then it provided prosperity in theory at 
least to all its citizens
in the past decades.
And the question now is: 
where do we go from here?
And for that to work, for everybody to 
feel involved, the discussion needs
to be broadened, needs to be widened,
and definitely needs to include women.

Croatian: 
Stoga, vrijeme je da prestanimo upotrebljavati
riječ izbjeglica ili izbjeglička kriza.
U pitanju je problem društvenoga razvoja.
To je golem mirovni projekt.
Tako je sve započelo.
Zatim je, barem u teoriji, 
svim građanima omogućio prosperitet
kroz posljednjih nekoliko desetljeća.
Sada se postavlja pitanje:
Koji je sljedeći korak?
I da bismo mogli napredovati, 
da bismo se svi osjećali uključenima,
rasprava mora biti šira, obuhvatnija
i definitivno treba uključivati žene.
