Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Europe's Identity Crisis


Two recent articles explore the question of troubled European identity. Firstly, a review of The People's State on the old German Democratic Republic (GDR) and then a review of the film on French songwriter and national icon, Serge Gainsbourg. In their seperate ways, they explore how the question of what it means to be a European citizen is either difficult to ascertain or fraught with national shame.
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