Responding to the 2015 Paris attacks

The January 2015 massacre at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and subsequent days of terror represented for many the challenges of building a more diverse and inclusive European Union. One response from the European Parliament’s Culture and Education (CULT) Committee delved into questions of intercultural dialogue and tolerance. What lessons does the work of CULT during that period offer for coaxing or cajoling member states on educating against xenophobia and racism? This article explores the intertextual policy field in which CULT conducted its work, the report that this committee generated, and the response from the European Commission. I argue that the impact of CULT’s report lies significantly in how it advanced the deep and broad intertextual work of the European Union.