Procesy kształtowania tożsamości europejskiej w strukturach zarządzania wielopoziomowego Unii Europejskiej

In today’s globalized world, individuals develop many complementary identities, resulting from their participation in the life of concurrently existing social groups. Ethnic, regional or cultural are among the collective identities that play an important role in human life. Collective identities are built within a specific community that develops a sense of belonging by sharing within the given social group a set of common values, ideals, views, needs, or interests. It is difficult to build such a sense of belonging within the institutionalized structures that ultimately seek to legitimize their existence and action through controlled and normative ways of constructing a common identity. Such phenomena can be observed for several decades within the European Union, which, through a multi-level governance system, seeks to build a European identity that is a derivative of the integration process.