Britain rejoining Erasmus+ won’t halt the nativist tide – but it’s a step in the right direction | Julian Baggini

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : It is because of his cosmopolitanism that 521 years after his birth, the EU named its exchange programme for students after him.
58% : Sometimes the EU signals this well, such as when it recognises local foods and cultures.
53% : Globalisation has become a byword for homogenisation, with local traditions lost in the melting pot.The whole premise of Erasmus+ is that each member state of the EU is different, and that is precisely why it benefits students to spend time in another one.
44% : Nationalism has been ascendant across the continent, and Euroscepticism ceased to be a peculiarly British phenomenon years ago.
41% : It was part of a project aiming to create citizens of Europe, not just of its member states.Britain’s post-Brexit withdrawal from the scheme was a setback for a cosmopolitan project that has suffered bigger blows since.
38% : But, too often, the EU is perceived as the enemy of national identity.Students today travel much more than my generation did.

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