This paper deals with a increasingly important debate in the EU: should an entity such as the EU become involve with memory policy? In the past, demands from old Member States (i.e. Germany) have configurated a model of dealing with memory centered on the Holocaust. However, the 2004 enlargement brough a significant number of states with differentiated historical memories and claims for their recogniton at the EU level. This paper will explore these claims and the way in which diverging memories seek to fit within an EU model.
