Until 2008, my generation, ‘the Generation Y’ or ‘the Peter Pan Generation’, could not have an easier ride. To us, back in undergrad, the make-up of the European Union, with its many organs and institutions, seemed vague and intangible. We used to joke that the Erasmus programme, from which we all benefited, must be the EU ‘s single most successful endeavour. This programme, which allows students to spend 3 – 12 months living and working in another European country – many of them for the first time – certainly fostered ever-closer and deep-seated unions: of friends, lovers and of love for other cultures.
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