Journal: EUrope cultures mémoires identités/ EUrope cultures memories identities
Year: 2025

This article explores the role of history and memory in the European Parliament.Informed by the author's experience of heading the newly established European Parliament History Service (EPHS) in a part-time role during 2022-24, it reflects on the nature, challenges, and fragility of transgressing boundaries between academia and politics on the science-policy interface in a transnational institution.The trajectory of the EPHS demonstrates inter alia how much effective interaction between academia