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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Between Social Theory and European Integration -- 2 New Practices of Citizenship -- 3 Individuals, Communities and Knowledge in an Era of Identity Politics -- 4 Identity and Experience -- 5 Forms of Multiculturalism -- 6 Symbolic Multiculturalism and Affirmative Action -- 7 The Creation of European Identity -- 8 Citizenship and the Role of Cultural Policy -- 9 Subsidiarity and Citizenship -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography

This article analyses the ideas and principles that EU cultural policy seeks to promote, and how they are connected to cohesion policy and citizenship. A review of the background to the 2000-04 first framework in support of culture shows that the European Commission justifies cultural policy pre-dominantly in connection with cohesion, while it also aims for the development of a European identity as a civic culture. This view is compared with that of the Committee of the Regions (COR), and the divergence of cultural ends between them is made explicit. Finally, the article relates this case to the wider debate on liberal citizenship and minority/national rights, and warns that such a discrepancy stems from two conflicting models of citizenship. (Journal of Common Market Studies / FUB)

During the past five years, the European Union has been trying to sponsor a coming of age of European Identity awareness across national borders. In doing so, EU administration intends to square the circle of European Union as the super nation-state of the nation states of Europe. However prompted or justified by the political or economic context, it is noteworthy to what extent the texts of European statutes and policies lack theoretical alternatives to the territorial and relatively homogeneous state. In order for it not to become a threat perceived by the population in identity terms, the apparently forthcoming idea of European citizenship needs to address the concerns of both traditional and new ethnonational minorities at the state level and underneath. In the light of a global context, the tide of Europeanization is but a particular case of the worldwide extended tension between the two increasing and opposing processes of globalization and particularization. Drawing on methodological and theoretical considerations I explore the conflictive and tangled hierarchies of identity and citizenship. Finally, in regard to the problem of how diverse cultures and identities could relate to the universal idea of democratic citizenship, a proposal that attempts to mediate multiculturalism and Eurocentrism will be drafted.