A Community of Fate: Growing European Identity in Times of Polycrisis
A new policy brief co-authored by Theresa Kuhn, ACES theme group leader
1 mei 2024
The ACES Politics and Public theme group leader, Theresa Kuhn, together with Armin Seimel and John M. Michaelis, authored a policy brief titled 'A Community of Fate: Growing European Identity in Times of Polycrisis: Exploring Long-Term Trends of European Identity Across the European Member States.
Has European integration left its mark on collective identities? Can we speak of a shared identity among European citizens? If so, how has it developed across Europe, and in response to major political events and the “polycrises” of the past two decades?
The aim of this report is to answer these questions and to highlight the descriptive trends discovered by a novel measure of European identity, built in the context of the EUDENTIFY Project. This tool was created to enable researchers to track European identity across time and across countries with a consistent measure.