Education sought by EU to help build European identity


  • World
  • Saturday, 18 Nov 2017

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - European Union leaders, wary of the rise of populism and xenophobia, are turning to one of their more successful programmes, the Erasmus student exchange scheme, to help foster cross-border education and European unity.

Over lunch in the Swedish city of Gothenburg on Friday, they discussed and gave political support to a European Commission proposal to create a European Education Area, in which the EU could help promote studies across its various nations.

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