Globalization and European Integration.

Under conditions of security, I will acquire a more complex identity than the idea of tribalism suggests.I will identify myself with more than one tribe;I will be an American, a Jew, an easterner, an intellectual, a professor. Imagine a similar multiplication of identities around the world, and the world begins to look like a less dangerous place.When identities are multiplied, passions are divided.(Walzer 1994:199-200)

From the early Middle Ages Europe existed as a family of cultures, knit by Latin Christianity built on the heritage of the Roman Empire, dynastic intermarriage, the rise of a system of diplomacy and later international treaties (Spohn Willfried&Triantafyllidou Anna, p. 42). Furthermore globalisation, was the main target since the years of colonization; people always wanted to establish relation with the unknown, the “new” always seemed seductive. In the past, this procedure was not “threatening” the National Identities of the Superpowers, because the lines between the civilizations were well drawn.Globalization nowadays, is a contested process where nations, societes and cultures are in deep interrelation; as Wolf characteristically wrote, this continious procedure leads to the formation of a “a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other like so many hard and rounded billiard balls”. Even we wish to simplify the global structure, whether in the form of nations or societies, identity plays a vital but complex role. The construction, ascription, internationalization, refusal or reclaiming of identities continually works behind, below and on the stage of worls politics (Lisbeth Aggestam & Adrian Hyde-Price, p. 29). An important aspect which is obvious focused in the behaviour of EU member-states is that most of them face European integration and globalisation with a different way; those who consider globalization as a threat, doesn’t mean that they feel the same for European integration.
Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou once said that “the idea at the heart of the European social model is the commitment to combine competitiveness and cohesion”; european integration underpins multiculturalism. Even the European model of integration is the most developed in the world, it might content serious implications.