ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the traditional ingredients of European identity. It looks at the notion of European citizenship as it is developing inside the European Union. The urge for delimitation is a characteristic desired in Europe, as the mere identity of language will always remain a European experience of limitation. Any parochial writing of a nation's own history has always found its counterpart in similar conduct by some neighbor. The urge for delimitation is a characteristic desired in Europe, as the mere identity of language will always remain a European experience of limitation. Any parochial writing of a nation's own history has always found its counterpart in similar conduct by some neighbor. The year '1989', the revolutionary peak of a revolutionary epoch, has thrown new light upon the old European question about progress in relation to regression, about progres and decay.
