“February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together.” Constellations 10.3 (2003): 291-297.

“We should not forget two dates: not the day the newspapers reported to their
astonished readers the Spanish prime minister’s invitation to the other European
nations willing to support the Iraq war to swear an oath of loyalty to George W. Bush,
an invitation issued behind the back of the other countries of the European Union.
But we should also remember February 15, 2003, as mass demonstrations in
London and Rome, Madrid and Barcelona, Berlin and Paris reacted to this sneak
attack. The simultaneity of these overwhelming demonstrations – the largest
since the end of the Second World War – may well, in hindsight, go down in
history as a sign of the birth of a European public sphere.”

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