Within the European Union at least since the failed referenda on the EU constitution, there has been a strong realization that nationllism has been strengthened in the European countries, even in Western Europe, which has been seen as the civilized counterpart of the nationalistic Eastern Europe. In my paper I look at the construction of political communities through processes of me memory and the politics of memory. I seek to highlight that there are politics of memory on different levels of political community building, not only the national or the European federal level....
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