Succes sau eşec al modelului multiculturalismului în Uniunea Europeană (Success or Failure for The Model of Multiculturalism in The European Union)

• Main Author: Marcela Monica STOICA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Institutul European Iasi 2015-06-01
• Series: Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice
• Subjects: multiculturalism; public space; European identity; citizenship
• Online Access: http://revistapolis.ro/images/arhiva/2015/Volumul_III_nr.2_8/Marcela_Monica_STOICA.pdf
• ISSN: 1221-9762; 2344-5750

A theme that appears frequently in public debate, in recent years, concerns the future and destiny of a united Europe, from the cultural approach of the European integration, the relationship between national and European level, the relationship between the national cultures in the European space and the possibility of the emergence of a European cultural identity with supranational character. Therefore, the present paper starts from Giovanni Sartori’s assertion according to whom, Europe is faced with the dilemma of multiculturalism versus pluralism aiming to examine whether the model of multiculturalism can be viable given that European public space became a geopolitical environment that is experiencing a new institutional arrangement between nation states and a new paradigm of coexistence of the cultural differences.There are analysed, in chronological perspective, the evolution of the European integration process focusing on the fourth level, the cultural one. Thus, the construction of a common European cultural space that, deeply, closes the citizens, the nations, the ethnicities, the societies and the regions proves to be the most difficult task that removes more and more European Union from an European identity and from the emergence of a European demos.