There are two opposing forces that have been directly affecting European integration processes: the effects of global socio-economic interdependence that spells integration and the side effects of ethnicity and nationality that demands separation. The centrifugal force of the claims of tribe, race, section, region and nation are pulling Europeans apart. To build the EU identity, the EU, on the one hand, has to base on protecting and developing ancient sets of values and traditions and on the other hand the danger of institutionalizing the centrifugal force.

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