National Identity And European Identity

Ethnic/national consciousness and identity in Europe both for the development ofmodern Europe produced two important political culture in the process of Europeanintegration are key basic elements. Therefore, how to not prevent States under thesovereignty diversity in unity, in order to obtain the maximum benefit of all, with thetolerant attitude by the "national identity" to expand to the "European identity" will be thenext stage of the European integration of the success of the decisive position.Europe is the birthplace of the traditional nation-state, However, the European continentfor a long time in the future also be regarded as the same community (community). Therefore,this article from two European cultural identity " national consciousness " and " Europeanconsciousness" as the analysis of the spindle. Nationalism as cohesion forces within thecountry, However, on the other hand, the European region geographically particularity, theso-called European concept derived from each other for a long time in order to share thehistory and cultural heritage. From a cultural point of view, the concept of fact, back inEurope, buried people, but after the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Europe fostered byindustrialization, modernization and the spread of catalysis, and gradually form a commonconsciousness of Europe as a whole process, to order the face of the1950s changes in theinternational environment and the future of European civilization has long lofty position tochallenge before the politicians and under the operation of mobile home will be of concrete,conduct of European integration. However under national sovereignty in the traditionalEuropean architecture is still unable to be smoothly transferred to the European identity ofnational identity. Scott and Latin scholar from Finland regularity, norms and cognitive threepillars (a three-pillared institutionalism) are theoretical framework that although the EU draftconstitution in order to strengthen the legal system, the express order to create a variety ofcommon European values and integration symbols, but it can not strengthen the EU peoplessense of collective identity, or weaken the order of European integration, making the stage ofEurope heading towards a " Europe without constant " and " inter-governmental co-operation"led EU ’s integration speed and extent of." European Constitutional Treaty," the referendumfails, it is the most typical example. This failure can be seen as the people of Europe for EUintegration speed too fast, fearing the gradual disappearance of national sovereignty inattitudes on reservations However for European integration still hold a fairly high degree ofcertainty. Qualifications of the European Union by order optimistic, stagnation phase,accelerated phase, and is now facing the direction of the nation-state with a completedeparture from the traditional political integration phase, the whole world is watchingwhether there will be a precedent: the European countries towards the federal or confederaltype, can be regarded as an important global historical process milestone. The issue beforethe euro has represented national sovereignty is relative deprivation, and therefore within theEU there is always the voice of disagreement; ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe tojoin the order within the EU seems more intensified regionalization trends; Furthermore, thecurrent " intergovernmental ism " and" supranationalism "dual system in Europe, the EUpolicy to allow Member States to adopt opt-out policy, but also created the EU ininternational organizations order performance incompetence, inconsistent sound pace, butalso to not be optimistic about the prospects for the European. Former French PresidentValery Giscard d’Estaing in the Constituent Assembly in2002warned that the EU isbecoming increasingly stresses the importance of Member States national interests, butgradually lost popular support, functionality is not Akira, the lack of efficiency of thedecision-making process, etc. He urged all participants representatives to the constitutionalissues in the EU Member States in Europe show strong consensus, giving up on the historyand geographical barriers, united Europe in the future. The main purpose of the EuropeanConstitution is to give the EU the political and military powers in essence, therefore, thesuccess of the European constitution-making more depending on the country ’s sovereigntyand national interests of the degree of alienation.The purpose of this study apart from the European political and cultural development toillustrate the analysis of "national identity"(or national identity) and the "European identity"within the EU in the current issue of European identity on the plight and challenges, and forthe European Constitution Treaty-related content, view of European integration under thesovereignty of the people of the EU fluctuation and centripetal force and cohesion in theMember States as the original French and Dutch rejected the European Constitution willaffect after the next stage of the European integration goal.Thesis is divided into three parts commence elaboration. The first part of the contentfrom the European nation-state and nationalism as a central theme of national identity toexplain both the nation-state and national identity; elaborate on the second part of theformation and development of European identity; third part of European identity embodiesand institutionalism perspective focuses on two aspects of the draft European Constitutionimpact on European identity. This early in the writing process of data collection methods mainly taken the literature,comparative research method used in the specific study of history and logic of unity,normative analysis and empirical analysis combining interdisciplinary research methods suchas the integration of the European Union the European identity to explore this subject indepth.