The European Colonial Community and the House of European History: Virgin Birth Re-enacted?

This article aims to contribute to a growing amount of scholarship that problematizes the colonial dimensions of the EU and the lack of attention to colonialism, empire and race in European studies scholarship. Specifically, we focus on how Europe’s post-war historiography is displayed on the fourth floor of the House of European History, which covers the birth of the European Economic Community (EEC), and how the ‘European project’ has developed until the 1970s. Our findings involve a problematization of how colonial entanglements are (not) represented and suggestions on how these could be addressed more adequately.