ABSTRACT
If the geopolitical changes that occurred in Europe in 1989 broke the consensual post-war national myths, the management of the past that emerged with the European enlargement in the 1990s and the 2000s gave room for ambivalent readings of history and testimonial discourses in Europe. The musealization of historical pasts during the last 30 years in Europe offers nonetheless an illustration of the opening of new public stages for the reshaping of social memory work at a European scale. This chapter examines the main features of European debates on the politics of history and discusses the recent attempts to transcend traditional national based narratives into a more cosmopolitan European one.
