Professor of European Politics, University of Oxford
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Formative moment
"If you ask me where I am from, the only coherent answer I can give you is that I am from Europe, because I am a Polish national, a Dutch citizen, an Italian resident and British taxpayer…so I feel very much at home in Europe.” -Jan Zielonka on European identity
| Time | Question |
|---|---|
| 0:02 | Do you identify as a European? |
| 0:35 | What was your formative European moment? |
| 2:18 | What was the worst moment in recent European history? |
| 3:36 | What was the best moment in recent European history? |
| 4:27 | What is the single most important thing the EU has done for you personally? |
| 5:48 | What is the one thing you would most like the EU to have achieved by 2030? |
| 7:45 | How can the EU encourage the move beyond the idea of the nation state towards a more supra-national identity? |
| 11:33 | What is the main challenge that the EU is currently facing and what is the solution to it? |
| 14:07 | How big of a threat to the EU’s future is the erosion of democracy and the rule of law in countries like Poland and Hungary? |
| 17:44 | Do you see further EU enlargement in the future? If not, how will this change the EU’s foreign policy given that enlargement has formed a significant part of it in the past? |
| 23:03 | To what extent can the EU pursue any policy goals without having unity between its member states? |