{"id":1886,"date":"2026-08-05T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/uncategorized\/read-my-book-we-are-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:31:07","slug":"read-my-book-we-are-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/uncategorized\/read-my-book-we-are-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Read my book \u201cWe are Europe\u201d!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1886\" class=\"elementor elementor-1886 elementor-1880\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d1a8f2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7d1a8f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2fedba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a2fedba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Two years ago, I published a book about Europe\u2019s greatest challenges and opportunities and about the changes we urgently need to secure our future. In the book, I lay out my vision for a new European project: one that is stronger, more democratic, and better prepared for the world of tomorrow.<br><br>Now, I\u2019ve translated and updated the book in English, and I genuinely believe this new version is even better than the original. That\u2019s why I started a new mission: making it freely available to everyone. <br><br>In We Are Europe, I take readers on a journey across our continent. Through history, personal stories, and political reflection, the book tells the deeper story behind European cooperation: what we have achieved together, where the European Union still falls short, and what kind of Europe we need for the future. <br><br>At a time when Europe faces enormous geopolitical, economic, and democratic challenges, I wanted to write an optimistic story; one that shows why a united Europe still matters, and what we can do to make it stronger. <br><br>The response has been incredible. I received more than 180 messages from people across Europe whom sent their free physical copy by post. I transformed my office into a mini post office, and shipped copies of We Are Europe to readers all across the continent.  <br><br>And the best part: now the book is also freely available as an eBook and audiobook. You can download them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.botuitgevers.nl\/product\/reinier-van-lanschot-we-are-europe\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, I published a book about Europe\u2019s greatest challenges and opportunities and about the changes we urgently need to secure our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reiniervanlanschot.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}