In her lecture Aline Sierp traces the development of the increasing involvement of the European Union in heritage and memory politics starting with the development of a felt need for a European founding myth and ending with the EU’s active formulation of policies dealing with heritage and memory issues. It highlights the role the memory of the Holocaust played in creating a shared consciousness and the difficulties EU actors faced when trying to enter an area that until then had been considered an exclusive prerogative of the nation state. It focuses in particular on the disputes between East and Western European countries regarding memories and discusses how the EU deals with those conflictual questions. In analysing initiatives of the EU aimed at creating common ground for debates on history, heritage and memory, it also highlights the blank spots in the development of a shared European consciousness of the past.
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