Euroskepticism and the politics of memory: the case of Czech republic, Poland and Germany

Stadnichenko, О.I. and Tryma, К.А. and Salnikova, N.V. (2023) Euroskepticism and the politics of memory: the case of Czech republic, Poland and Germany Регіональні студії, 2023 (32). pp. 30-36. ISSN 2663-6107; 2663-6115

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Abstract

By the beginning of the 21st century, the EU has made significant progress in implementing the United Europe project by introducing a single currency – the euro. It successfully solved the tasks related to the movement toward a "global cosmopolitan memory", the formation of common European identity. At the beginning of the 21st century, more than 67% of EU citizens perceived themselves primarily as Europeans. The pan-European culture of memory, becoming, in fact, cosmopolitan, took a dominant position in the historical narrative of the European space. In 2004, there was a large-scale expansion of the EU at the expense of the countries of the former socialist camp. The expansion carried out for purely political purposes and without economic justification, caused the development of a whole range of negative phenomena for the EU, one of which was the emergence of a conflict of memory. The principles of the policy of memory were adjusted, the transition from a cosmopolitan approach to the principle of agonist, i.e. dialogue based not only on the conflict of interests but also on the mutual respect of the disputants. Within the framework of this approach, key assessments of the historical narrative were corrected. Thus, in 2009, the European Parliament made additions to the previously adopted in 2005. It was a document giving an assessment of the Holocaust and the fascist regime with the inclusion of Soviet totalitarianism in this assessment framework. In subsequent years, assessments of the narrative of the Second World War began to more and more correspond to the concept of the culture of historical memory adopted by the countries of ‘Young Europe’. The culture of memory in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe was based on fundamentally different concepts of understanding the experience of the historical past and its most important layer associated with the Second World War – it was a different historical memory.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: DOI https://doi.org/10.32782/2663-6170/2023.32.4
Uncontrolled Keywords: Europe; euroscepticism; memory; politics; history
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Index Copernicus
Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у журналах > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет журналістики > Кафедра реклами та зв'язків з громадськістю
Depositing User: Ольга Іванівна Стадніченко
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2023 07:55
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 07:55
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/44478

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