European Utopics. On the Interreg Central Europe Cooperation Programme

Abstract

This chapter focuses on European Agendas and Programmes on Interregional Cooperation for the 2014–2020 period, with special emphasis on the Interreg Central Europe Cooperation Programme. Drawing on the pioneering work of Louis Marin on utopian discourses, our work attempts to show that these texts address the current European Union impasse in forms similar to those by which Thomas More’s Utopia, back in 1513, faced the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The primary purpose of this work is to highlight the latent ideological conflicts and contradictions which underpin such apparently algid and merely descriptive texts, with the ultimate aim of helping to make them visible and enunciable.