What—if anything—do the twenty-eight member states of the European Union have in common? Amidst all the variety, can one even speak of a European identity?
What makes people identify with Europe? To answer this question, this book analyzes the development and determinants of a common European identity among EU citi
Heikki Mikkeli charts the history of the idea of Europe and European identity. The first part introduces the various attempts to unify Europe from antiquity to