Towards a European identity

policy or culture?

Hans-Joachim Veen

pp. 41-47

in: Joe Andrew, Malcolm Crook, Michael Waller (eds), Why Europe? problems of culture and identity I, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

The former British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was asked one day by a journalist, what had influenced him most in defining his policy and he answered: "The circumstances, my dear, the circumstances."