Bridging the EU’s generational divide

Caroline Spelman looks at the reasons underpinning the generational divide underpinning the EU referendum debate. She urges those of later years to think about their children and their grandchildren when casting their vote on June 23rd. None of us should cast our vote just in our own interest but think about those we bind to our decision.

06, 13, 2016
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Belonging, Nigel Biggar

The nation state and the case for remaining in the EU

Nigel Biggar reasons there may well be good reasons for Britain to remain in the E.U. But if that is so, the unchristian nature, or the obsolescence, of the nation-state is not one of them. Nation-states are not in fact passé, and the Bible doesn’t tell us that they should be. To argue for Britain to remain in the European Union on the ground that the age of the nation-state is over is nonsensical because, of course, a federal E.U. would be nothing other than a larger state, serving the newly self-conscious nation of Europeans, and able to hold its own against the United States on the one hand, and Russia and China on the other.

10, 19, 2015
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Culture, Francis Campbell, History, Memory

Europe’s past invades the present

Francis Campbell shows that despite the EU’s evident successes, the asymmetry in memories across EU member states remains a source of division and tension.