Abstract
This article explores the role of history and memory in the European Parliament.
Informed by the author’s experience of heading the newly established European
Parliament History Service (EPHS) in a part-time role during 2022-24, it reflects
on the nature, challenges, and fragility of transgressing boundaries between
academia and politics on the science-policy interface in a transnational
institution. The trajectory of the EPHS demonstrates inter alia how much effective
interaction between academia and politics in such a context depends on key
bureaucratic decision-makers themselves being intellectually curious enough and
politically willing to transgress boundaries.
Informed by the author’s experience of heading the newly established European
Parliament History Service (EPHS) in a part-time role during 2022-24, it reflects
on the nature, challenges, and fragility of transgressing boundaries between
academia and politics on the science-policy interface in a transnational
institution. The trajectory of the EPHS demonstrates inter alia how much effective
interaction between academia and politics in such a context depends on key
bureaucratic decision-makers themselves being intellectually curious enough and
politically willing to transgress boundaries.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 7-23 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | EUrope: Cultures, Memories, Identities |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2025 |
Keywords
- European Parliament
- European Parliament History Service
- history
- memory
- European integration
- European Union
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