Is European Identity Imagined or Real?

The integration process in Europe aims to build the largest legal system of legal and economic integration. At the beginning of the integration, some community countries were smaller than the current EU. Currently there are 28 member countries, Croatia is the last country to join the EU in July 2013. The EU's population is over 530 million. "European identity" adopted by "European identity" in 1973 is the first step to create a common identity among citizens of the European Community.

This article is divided into several sections. The first part analyzes the identity of Europe from a historical perspective and the next section discusses the state of identity of Europe and the identity of the citizens with the common identity of Europe and the third part discusses the new European identity and the new I will present the formulated recommendation. A short history of efforts and progress for the EU to establish a common identity, and finally, in the fifth part of this article we will explain various aspects of EU citizenship.

An important aspect promoting European identity is institutionalization of success when the theory enters the real world. Clearly, a strong and effective EU common institution is needed to support an effective European common identity; otherwise, any form of European identity structure will become a social phenomenon. The goal of sharing common principles with European values ​​must be rooted in a common European system at the supranational level; else, European self-awareness should be promoted to the post-national level can not. On the one hand, the advantage of the European institution is totally legal and responsible, not opposed to diversity and change, it is necessary to develop a political identity in a manner different from the national and cultural characteristics .

The level of national identity in Europe reveals the formation of supranational national identity of the returnees. Contrary to our initial hypothesis, immigration experience had little or no impact on the European level of Latvian immigration. The living experience of other European countries has considerably strengthened the belonging sense of Latvia rather than promoting the formation of supranational identity. This is related to Hedetoft's conclusion that it is psychologically simple to identify himself psychologically through a narrow community with a relatively clear boundary and a cultural tradition, but the EU project is divided into areas (EU Expansion process) and provides considerable ambiguity about tradition and value. Open understanding