NEGOTIATING EUROPE

The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates t hat the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous inter pretation of European identity. Rather, it is a process of negotiation in which various entrepreneurs of Europeanness within and out side the EU institutions invent and communicate representations of Europe. Both the negotiation and the multilayered representations of Euro...[Read more]