NACIONALNI IDENTITET U EVROPSKOJ UNIJI
THE NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: Members of one nation have a certain specificity, recognized features, as well as personal sense of belonging, which constitute their national identity. National identity is the awareness of belonging to a particular national group that includes the existence of shared beliefs, values and goals. The idea of national identity is achieved when the state sovereignty came to a crisis, because of waste king- sovereign as the source of sovereignty. There was need for a new source of sovereignty, and there was a certain number of ideas, including ideas about the nation. Joining the European Union for the national state is a pass for accelerated economic progress and a number of other privileges. Membership in the European Union brings advantages but also disadvantages, one of them is the loss of national identity. European identity strangle national identity and leads to its neglect. States doesnt have their own identity anymore than one common-European. The national state in the context of the European Union was placed in an entirely new and different space. Thereby, the European Union desolate borders between states and tries to establish a European society, European citizens and European identity, and on the other side is trying to reconcile the diversity of national identities under one common name-European identity.

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