Europeanization on the Periphery

Irish Elite Responses to European Integration, 1929–1963

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20058049
AutoresTill Geiger (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Páginas105-133
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaEuropeanization (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004333369_008
OpenAlexW2515952048
ISBN9789004333369
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18

Tensions between the European and the national levels may be seen in the case of the Commission’s personnel management policies, which bear witness to the difficulties of constructing a Europe which has definitively escaped from nationalist reflexes. The political dimension of the re-construction of identities must be analysed as carefully as the economic character of the integration project. It is linked to the definition a European common public space and to the question of how and when the peoples of the members states in their diversity share the sentiment of forging a community of interest. This paper explores the manner in which EU institutions construct a common culture, accommodating the diverse nationalities of their own officials and the diversity of the member states’ societies. It demonstrates how the Commission showcases its Europeanness and illustrates the tensions between European and national identities. Attention is focused on the development of intercultural understandings, the process of hybridization which is emerging in EU institutions and the progressive Europeanization of national elites

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