Vol. 71 No. 2 (2018): Jak mówić o Unii Europejskiej?
The European Union in Times of Great Changes
From Functional to Substantial European Identity: A Change in the Approach to the Role of European Values
Natolin European Centre, Collegium Civitas
Abstract
Starting from the 1970s, the concept of European identity has been connected with the response to the crisis phenomena. Through the theoretical aspect, it was shown in this article how a functional understanding of European identity negated its criticism in the name of the necessary legitimization of the integration process. There is also presented a change in the approach to the role of values in European integration, and the concept of European identity per se (from functional to substantial), which has recently taken place in the European Union under the influence of growing internal conflicts and external threats. Essentially, this revision leads to the shift of the whole debate about the identity from the functionally understood legitimization of the system towards the claim motivated by historical, axiological and civilizational reasons to treat the EU as a normative force in politics. Therefore, can normative power be created on a foundation whose substantial identity is treated as a way to generate output legitimacy?
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