Identity, citizenship and democracy in Europe

Wolfgang Ullmann

pp. 48-52

in: Joe Andrew, Malcolm Crook, Michael Waller (eds), Why Europe? problems of culture and identity I, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

There is more than one reason to start a statement on citizenship and democracy in Europe with an explanation of the concept of identity and what it could mean on the European level. One of these reasons I will try to explain by referring to a discussion, which took place in the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament some months before September 1996, when I presented the paper which forms the basis of this chapter.