After 70 years of trading coal, steel, and fish, Europe now shares something more soulful: song treasures! The EU Songbook, independent of EU institutions and winner of the European Citizens' Prize 2023, features 164 representative songs from all 27 member states.

Selected by choir singers, music students, and teachers from 103 music NGOs and conservatories, the songs were finalised through 27 public votes, engaging over 87,000 citizens and 400 media outlets. Curated over nine years, the coll...