Towards an European cultural identity? Cover Image

Egy európai kulturális identitás felé?
Towards an European cultural identity?

Author(s): George Schöpflin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Jelenkor Kiadó
Keywords: European identity; culture; European Union; access countries; Central Europe; Southwest-Europe

Summary/Abstract: A survey of the chances of the emergence an Europeam cultural identity. The reduction of the European politics to a kind of management; the separation of politics and culture in order to avoid political nationalism and to facilitate the political integration of non-European immigrants; the efforts of old EU countries to maintain and stabilize their traditional discourses and to exclude the Europe-oriented discoursese of the access countries; the exclusion of the Balcans fron the EU – all these factors will act against the emergence of an European public opinion and of a common European cultural identity.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 44-46
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Hungarian