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Press Release Monday, December 8th, 2025 The College of Europe acknowledges the resignation of Ms Federica Mogherini as Rector of the College of Europe. On 5 December 2025, the Executive Committee of...
"The study of History teaches us to respect arguments and evidence. To search out the sources, the data, the evidence. To sift it, deciding what is relevant to the problem at hand. To assess its reliability, sceptically, but not cynically. To weigh up conflicting explanations. To challenge orthodoxies and conventional pieties, old and new, but occasionally to discover that they are well founded. To construct explanations of our own. To express them clearly and persuasively, and to revise them in response to the critical questioning of others."
Prof. Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI
Chairholder of the European Civilization Chair
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