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Author(s) -
Ana Maria Anghelea
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1583-3984
pISSN - 2414-6633
DOI - 10.22151/politikon.12.10
Subject(s) - member states , maastricht treaty , political science , european union , treaty , treaty of lisbon , national identity , public administration , european integration , identity (music) , law , international trade , business , physics , politics , acoustics
When at the end of the 1980s the EU launched a number of policies aimed to creating a European identity, the member states responded by incorporating into the Maastricht Treaty a clause stating that the European Union should respect the member states’ respective national identities (article F, point1). This reaction, along with the introduction of principle of subsidiary and the rejection of the word “federal”, revealed that many member states considered the creation of a European identity as a potential threat to their own national identities and their citizen’s national loyalties (Hojelid, 2001).