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IS THERE AN EUROPEAN IDENTITY?
WHICH EUROPEAN UNION CONSTITUTION?
CIM - November 2005
Clement Serge, FRA Martin Jencik, CZEGregor Kopriva, SLOAnders Lindahl, SWEAlessandro Valere, ITA
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DEFINITION OF “EUROPEAN IDENTITY”
• European-in this case we will consider the European Union (the 25 countries)
•Identity - the spirit of this community. The very source of cohesion. What do we share?
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TWO POINTS OF VIEW
• “Não sou nem Ateniense nem Grego, mas sim um cidadão do mundo”- Socrates
• “No soy Español, pero soy un Basco”-Un basco…
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THE POLITICAL DEFINITION
The European citizenship - Since Maastricht (1992)
• Every citizen who is a national of a Member State is also a citizen of the Union
• This citizenship vests new rights in Europeans
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THE SYMBOLS OF EUROPE
As a country we have:
• The flag
• The European hymn
• The Euro
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WHAT MAKES EU MEMBERS SIMILAR
“some common roots”
• Greek philosophy (way of mind)
• Roman Empire (presence)
• Christianity (religion and values)
• History together (experiences)
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Greek philosophy:
• they first take care about Soul: the human being is the centre of the reality, his essence corresponds with his psyché , therefore with his capacity of want and understand
• thinking through concept (conceptualization), allowed the technical and scientific development, instead of the primitive way of thinking through images and myths or legends
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ROMAN EMPIRE
• infrastructures ( cities still alive, urban system, aqueducts, roads still used...) ;
• law as a codified system accepted and shared by everybody , still common in the studies of law all over the continent;
• language: Latin scattered by Romans through the Europe is the root of many languages.
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CHRISTIANITY
…the concept of human being, not only as an individual being (one in a mass of people), but as a person with his dignity, precious just because a living being, in relation with other ones in a society; only Christianity has conveyed the absolute value of person.
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HISTORY TOGETHER
• trade
• migratory flows
• wars
• epidemic diseases
• scientific and technical development
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Because of this unique mix only in Europe could born and develop:
• the occidental way of modern democracy based on law as a codified system accepted and shared by every citizen
• our common sense of human rights
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WHAT MAKES EU MEMBERS DIFFERENT
• National issues – temperament
• Political issues – expectations of membership
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NATIONAL ISSUES
• Language
• Historical experiences
• Relations to authorities
• Values
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POLITICAL ISSUES
• Foreign affairs
• Budget
• Importance
• Motives for joining
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HOFSTEDE`S SCALE IN EU
COUNTRYPower distanc
e
Uncertainty
avoidance
Individualism/
Collectivism
Masculinity/
Feminity
Denmark 18 23 74 16
France 68 86 71 43
Germany 35 65 67 66
UK 35 35 89 66
Italy 50 75 76 70
Netherlands 38 53 80 14
Portugal 63 104 27 31
Sweden 31 29 71 5
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EURO-SCEPTICISM • Identity based
• Cleavage based
• Policy-based
• Institutionally based
• National interest-based
• Experience-based
• Party-based
• Atlantic-based
• Practice-based
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CREATING AND FOSTERING EUROPEAN IDENTITY
(three basic strategies)
• to construct a common culturally defined European identity in a similar way as national identities have been constructed
• supra-national legal system was built
• a new (embryonic) form of European
supranational citizenship has been
introduced
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THE EU’S CONSTITUTION “the enlarged Union in search of coherence and
solidarity”
• The European Constitution is still a relatively large document and consists of four main parts:
• Part I; covers the definition and objectives of the Union,
fundamental rights and citizenship of the Union, the Union's competences and how they are exercised, its institutions, the democratic life of the Union, the Union's finances, its immediate environment, and membership of the Union.
• Part II; of the Constitution contains the Charter of
Fundamental Rights. • Part III; sets out in detail the Union's policy areas and other
technical issues, • Part IV deals with the Treaty establishing the European
Constitution, including arrangements for ratification and future amendments.
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People are frightened but…
• All different but “Unity in diversity” Edy Korthales Altes.
• In term of identity- “The present identity of the European Union is not robust but rather confusing. It resembles a Picasso Portrait…” Edy Korthales Altes.
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WHO FEEL THIS UNITY?
• Erasmus-We share time together, apartments...We will go back very opened minded.
• Erasmus is strongly connected to education, coordination, exchanges of ideas, discoveries…
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Maybe tomorrow…
• We need more time, more coordination, more Erasmus, more information…
• And may be we will present our self as European and no as you usually do.