We dedicate this edition to the fall of the Berlin Wall which came down during the night of the 9th of November 1989. The Polish elections, won by Solidarnosc in June 1989, marked the end of the communist experience and opened the way to freedom in the East. Hungary and then the German Democratic Republique followed in Poland’s footsteps. A new era of building Europe was beginning. Germany was reunited, Europe was finding its boundaries again. In 2004, Poland, Hungary, the Slovakian and Czech Republics, Slovenia and the three Baltan states all entered the European Union ; in 2007, Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU. A strong and reconciled Europe could adopt its slogan : Europa in varietate concordia «Europe united through diversity».

This seventeenth edition considers experience. The editorial rive analyses the voluntary experience in integrating migrants. The academic rive reveals the double face of the experience. The spiritual rive questions what is really at stake in the experience. The European rive evokes the painful experience of immigrants in the European Union. The Irish rive offers the unexpected testimony of a competitive swimmer.