ABSTRACT
The halting progress of the post-Second World War nation states of Europe towards some form of supra-national integration has focused principally on economic affairs, and has predominantly been expressed through the establishment of institutions and through legal and administrative measures (see, for example, the majority of the contributions in Hurwitz and Lequesne 1991). With the exception of the short-lived relief and euphoria immediately following the war's end in 1945, these administrative and bureaucratic changes have had little evident root in popular sentiment. The evolution of a trading cartel of nation states into a social, cultural or political entity would seem to require a consensus of popular support or, at the very least, acceptance. This, in turn, requires a reformulation of the mental map of Europeans to encompass a new place-identity at the continental scale.
