PART 1: THE COLONISED SOCIETY

Europe's Forbidden Colony, Ep 1

Director:
Dan Davies

Producer:
Anson Hartford

Executive Producer:
Hugh Hartford

Philosopher Srecko Horvat looks at Europe's identity crisis and asks if the continent is colonising itself.

The film shows how Europe's colonialism is experienced by the minority ethnic population, who disproportionately feel the power of state surveillance and intrusion. Horvat reflects that it's not just the right that reaches for nationalist and xenophobic legitimacy. He illustrates how mainstream politicians - through France's banning of the niqab and the Danes taking valuables from migrants - channel this anger toward migrants, refugees and even the idea of Europe itself. In this episode Horvat talks to MEP Nigel Farage, professor Noam Chomsky, Belgian youth worker Ihsane Haouach, Dr Corinne Torrekens, author of Islam in Brussels, philosopher Slavoj Zizek, leader of far-right Hungarian party Jobbick Gabor Vona, Hungarian philosophers Agnes Heller and Gaspar Tamas.