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Most Europeans now share a red passport and a taste for city breaks in each other’s countries, but what else? Is to call something European simply an indication of location, or something deeper that draws on ideas and tradition spanning millennia? Or is the idea of Europe something more modern and more narrowly political, a project culminating in the European Union? Simon Glendinning’s interests lie in the philosophy of Europe and in European philosophy. He joins us to help us address the question, ‘Is Europe A Place Or An Idea?’ and in doing so will outline how many have conceived Europe and to what extent these concepts are useful or problematic. Dr Glendinning is a Reader in European Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Director of theForum for European Philosophy.