ABSTRACT

This chapter will describe the results of part of the overall multinational project, an attempt to examine French perceptions of the European Union. French involvement with all the key issues raised by this project – nationalism, the nation state and the European Union – will be discussed briefly in the first section of this chapter as background information. Then a lengthier discussion of the study and its results will be presented, followed by a concluding section that attempts to draw out some of the findings and their implications for the overall study.