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Building the EU without Europeans

10/20/2011

 
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Gareth Harding is a freelance journalist based in Brussels and the Brussels Program Director for the Missouri School of Journalism's Office of International Programs.

Harding gave the talk "Building the EU without Europeans during a brown bag lunch presentation at the University of Missouri on Sept. 19, 2011.

Last time I spoke at a brown bag here was shortly after the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and I told an uplifting story of how a decimated continent pieced itself back together again to become ‘whole, free and at peace’ for the first time in its history. I’m afraid today’s talk will be a bit gloomier as it tackles the real roots of Europe's political and economic crisis - which I believe lie in building the EU without Europeans. 

“Yes, but what is a European?”

The question, posed by one of my students during a discussion on the EU, should have been easy enough for me to answer.

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