Thursday, February 26, 2015

EU integration pushed on schoolchildren through ‘invented’ history lessons, warns academic

Professor David Abulafia, a Cambridge University don, described how school textbooks are favoring a misleading idea of citizenship to create a sense of historical European unity.


He said the push for EU integration was already prominent in Germany and France – but is now staring to “creep in” to Britain.


He told The Telegraph: “There is a soft push to create a sense of European citizenship which is based on frankly an invented common history because the history of Europe is to a large extent the history of division, not the history of unity.


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