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Around one hundred media personalities from all over Europe discussed under the heading of “Quo vadis, Europe?” the future of Europe, topical issues of European integration, common values and the role of the media at the first M100 Sanssouci Colloquium on 2nd and 3rd September 2005. The discussions were characterised by controversial debates which raised many questions and there seemed to be ample need for further talks. Whether Voltaire, Albert Einstein or Fritz Lang – Potsdam has always inspired European thought which crosses national boundaries. Following the centuries’old tradition the city of Potsdam wants to offer Europe a platform for intercultural dialogue with the “M100 Sanssouci Colloquium” media summit. The M100 Sanssouci Colloquium shall become an inherent part of the annual events.
Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission, asked in his keynote speech, which opened the colloquium in the theatre of the Neues Palais, for faith in Europe and the European Union. Melanie Phillips, journalist and commentator of the Daily Mail in London, doubted Europe’s role for the people in the nation states, paraphrasing that “no-one would die for Europe”. In the workshops taking place in Cecilienhof, Marmor Palais and Orangery and moderated by Dr. Mathias Döpfner, Roger Köppel and Dr. Frank Schirrmacher, Europe with its freedom, values and culture but also its limits was inevitably
the focus of the discussions. Summing up the proceedings in the plenary session Baroness Kennedy said that everybody seemed to agree that “crisis”was the most used term during the colloquium.
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