One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity does not result in political and cultural unity. This book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe.

Contributors explore the issues of unity and diversity in 'Europe-building' through various European institutions, images, and programmes, and their effects on a variety of definitions of identity in such locales as France, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium.