Conference paper

Global Governance and European Identity

Furio Cerutti ; Universita di Firenze, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Firenze, Italy

Abstract

The peaceful and democratic integration of the European countries, including the Eastern enlargement of the Union, cannot be completed if the EU does not become a true, though not federal, polity. Making the European institutions fully legitimate and accountable requires the development of political identity in a shape which is different from both national and cultural identity, but is not opposite to them, and can accommodate diversity and change. Its contets can be seen in a specific set of constitutional values and principles, including a model of social relations, an international standing and a peculiar and unprecedented system of governance. Identity-formation in the EU goes through several channels, but has still to generate a European public sphere, though the source of this difficulty does not lie in the lack of a European people or demos.

Keywords

Europe; European identity; globalisation; governance

Hrčak ID:

23391

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23391

Publication date:

30.7.2003.

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