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Timothy Garton Ash: Are you a European?

Timothy Garton Ash puhui 13.3. 2006 Ulkopoliittisen instituutin tilaisuudessa eurooppalaisuudesta.

Are you a European?
Puhuja: Timothy Garton Ash
Kullervo Killinen Award Ceremony 13 March 2006
Säätytalo, Helsinki

Professor Garton Ash´s presentation:

"What does it mean when we say "I am a European?" It is self evident that it has meant very different things to different people at different times and in different places. What for example did it mean to Europa, a Phoenician princess - and one of the earliest illegal immigrants to Europe? What about Charlemagne himself? He is held to be the patron of Europeanism, celebrated in the Charlemagne Institute, the Charlemagne prize awarded in Aachen and the Charlemagne building in Brussels. There is a whole mythology of Europeanism built around Charlemagne, starting with the Chronicle of Pseudo Turpin - an 11th century forgery. Napoleon, when he met papal delegates in 1809, said, "Je suis Charlemagne, moi, oui, je suis Charlemagne". But in what sense was the real Charlemagne a European? What does it mean to say Charlemagne was a European? It's a question Jacques Le Goff asks in his book 'The Birth of Europe'. His answer is sceptical. While some contemporary documents describe Charlemagne as Head of Europe or Father of Europe, in truth Charlemagne was much more a great Frankish warrior. His imperial enterprise was more about trying to revive the old Roman empire than it was about looking forward to a new Europe."

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http://www.upi-fiia.fi/tilaisuudet/2006 ... %20ash.htm


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