European views

As the Jean monnet chair, I am responsible for promoting worldclass teaching and research on europe, objectively and analytically. not for promoting the eu or attitudes for or against it.

In the 2017 CCCu Fresher’s Blog Competition (mail), students were encouraged to write on any aspect of european democracy, migration, security, identity, economics or Brexit-eu relations.

of the 12 winners, four wrote on Brexit, three on european identity, two on economic and fiscal matters, two on Austria and spain and one on foreign policy. hardly a pro-eu outpouring.

Jean monnet structures are a key part of encouraging students to think critically and creatively about future uK-eu relations. Professor AMELIA HADFIELD, Canterbury Christ Church

University, Kent.