The Emergence of a Supra-National European Citizen: Merging National Characteristics
Kostas Theologou, Political Scientist, PhD
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
School of Applied Mathematics and Physics
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Genikes Edres, Bldg E, 1st floor
9 Heroon Polytechneiou Str,
15780 NTUA Zographos Campus tel. 0030 210 772 2255, cell 0030 6976016195 fax. 0030 210 7721618 e-mail: cstheol@central.ntua.gr
The emergence of a supra-national European citizen
Kostas Theologou,
PhD NTUA
The emergence of a supra-national European citizen ABSTRACT
This paper examines the emergence of European citizenship as a procedure of merging national (partial) characteristics into a supra-national formation. The paper summarizes the catalysts to the formation of a Pan-demos Europe.
No doubt, the role of the nation-state is changing within the institutional frame-work of the European Union. The model of citizenship based on national identity and the established idea of a nation-state is being outdated. This paper focuses on the conditions that produce the emergence of a non-ethnic attribute for E.U. citizens.
The social chemistry can arguably enhance the institutional framework of the central administrative attempts to define the social fabric of a multiethnic, mul-tilingual, multicultural and multi-denominational organisation. Yet, the more complex patterns of identity cannot be mere mixtures of political-administrative structures and institutions. In addition, the future of a federal Europe can only exist as one Republic Union of Working Citizens, not as several particularities and nationalisms.
The whole process is likely to be of long duration, assisted mainly by two fac-tors: the educational mechanisms in the existing states and the geographic diffu-sion of the European people (achieved by the facilitation for obtaining property in other countries and the working people mobility within its expanding bounda-ries). A new collective identity is likely to be thus created by sharing
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
School of Applied Mathematics and Physics
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Genikes Edres, Bldg E, 1st floor
9 Heroon Polytechneiou Str,
15780 NTUA Zographos Campus tel. 0030 210 772 2255, cell 0030 6976016195 fax. 0030 210 7721618 e-mail: cstheol@central.ntua.gr
The emergence of a supra-national European citizen
Kostas Theologou,
PhD NTUA
The emergence of a supra-national European citizen ABSTRACT
This paper examines the emergence of European citizenship as a procedure of merging national (partial) characteristics into a supra-national formation. The paper summarizes the catalysts to the formation of a Pan-demos Europe.
No doubt, the role of the nation-state is changing within the institutional frame-work of the European Union. The model of citizenship based on national identity and the established idea of a nation-state is being outdated. This paper focuses on the conditions that produce the emergence of a non-ethnic attribute for E.U. citizens.
The social chemistry can arguably enhance the institutional framework of the central administrative attempts to define the social fabric of a multiethnic, mul-tilingual, multicultural and multi-denominational organisation. Yet, the more complex patterns of identity cannot be mere mixtures of political-administrative structures and institutions. In addition, the future of a federal Europe can only exist as one Republic Union of Working Citizens, not as several particularities and nationalisms.
The whole process is likely to be of long duration, assisted mainly by two fac-tors: the educational mechanisms in the existing states and the geographic diffu-sion of the European people (achieved by the facilitation for obtaining property in other countries and the working people mobility within its expanding bounda-ries). A new collective identity is likely to be thus created by sharing
References: 7. Cacciari M., 1996, [in French], Etudes, tome 384, mars 1996, p. 357-366 [in Ital-ian,1998], L’Arcipelago, Milano: Adelphi and in: http://www.lyber-eclat.net/lyber/cacciari/archipel.html 8. Chryssochoou D. N., 2001, Towards a Civic Conception of the European Polity, work-ing paper 33/2001 in: http://www.one-europe.ac.uk/pdf/w33chryssochoou.pdf 9. Connelly J 10. Cotter B., 2002, Hannah Arendt and “the Right to Have Rights”, in: http://www.isanet.org/noarvhive/cotter.html 11. Fischer M 18. Kristeva J., 1996, Julia Kristeva: Interviews (ed. Guterman R. M.) New York: Colum-bia University Press, p.41. 19. La Torre M., 1999, European identity and citizenship, in working paper Reflections on European Identity, ed. Jansen T., published by the European Commission, For-ward Studies Unit, p. 81- 88 20. Lejeune C., 1999 23. Lévy J., 1998, Vers une société civile mondiale? In : L ' identité - L ' individu, Le groupe, La société. Paris: Sciences Humains, p. 363-368 24. Llobera J 31. Smith A., 1991, National Identity. London: Penguin. 00302107722255, 00302103829329 cstheol@central.ntua.gr