Bernd Jürgen Warneken brings to mind three moments of twinning and solidarity in European history: the French Federation Festival in 1790, the founding of the Socialist International in 1889 and a key event in immigration history: the "wild strikes" by foreigners and Germans in August 1973 July 1790, the founding congress of the Socialist International in July 1889 and the "wild strikes" by foreigners and Germans in August 1973. These three events each mark the beginning of a great emancipatory project: national unification based on civil liberty and equality, the overcoming of national class solidarity through international worker and peoples solidarity and the social recognition and political equality of immigrants in today's immigration society. The cultural scientist Bernd Jürgen Warneken visualizes these beautiful moments in dense descriptions. He works out their contradictions and limits, but also their innovative content and their productive consequences. A deliberately anti-cyclical book that recalls and pays tribute to the dawn of a Europe of freedom, equality and fraternity.