SIR EUROPA: EU PARLIAMENT, TOWARDS A "HOUSE OF EU HISTORY"

” “"A House of European History" to boost the spiritual dimension of the EU, focussing in particular on the EU integration process of the last fifty years". It might be an important source of unity and cohesion, inviting the European citizens to look beyond their national boundaries and increase the knowledge and sharing of their culture, values and effective results. These are some of the goals of the project put forward by president Hans-Gert Poettering during his appointment address and now arrived at a turning point with the beginning of the procedure for the creation of a "place in which to study" and explore the history of the EU. A project which, through a number of institutional steps, should "be unveiled before the EU Parliamentary election in 2014". (continued)” “