ABSTRACT
There has been undeniable progress in economic and political integration within the European Union (EU). Borders inside the Single Market have dropped, common standards for producing everything from screws to paper are in place, and citizens of all participating states are now subject to common laws on a variety of issues. Young people are growing up in a world structured not by the national antagonisms of the Cold War, but instead by a supra-national European space, represented in part by the common red passport which identifies them as compatriots when they travel beyond the borders of the Single Market. However, even apparently straightforward and mundane efforts to draw people into a shared political and practical space sometimes incite local passions of resistance.
