Maria Gutierrez

What does it mean to be European?

I would like to start by sharing with you I wrote in when I was applying to be a speaker in this panel: “To me being European means no longer being surprised when you cross a frontier. If you can sleep through a frontier without noticing anything and wake up in a foreign country that […]

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What does it mean to be European?

By Maria Gutierrez

What is “Europe”? Is it a (sub)continent, a way of living, a concept, a myth, a dream or a hope as Jacques Le Goff stated? Europe’s history started with the kidnapping of a young mortal by a selfish god. Later on, in the Middle Ages, what we currently call Europe was the Christianitas, only seen as the

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