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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Ann Rigney

Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project

Setting the scene

In December 2008, the European Parliament voted to establish under its aegis a “European House of History,” and commissioned a committee of experts to develop it.208 The stated purpose of this Museum, currently under construction in Brussels at a controversial cost of some 50 million euro and due to open at the end of 2015, is to ensure that a “shared view on the past, present and future of Europe can emerge” by creating “a place where a memory of European history and the work of European unification is jointly cultivated” (Committee 2008, 5). The “key message” to be “conveyed” by the new institution was described as follows:

The overcoming, to a large extent, of ...

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