Towards European Regional Identity: Europe Versus The West
Towards European Regional Identity: Europe Versus The West

Summary/Abstract: Recent war in Iraq has had a significant influence on dividing Europe. The somewhat contentious Donald Rumsfeld’s statement about “new” and “old” Europe has taken root not only in the public domain of Great Britain and other West European countries but also in Eastern Europe. Countries such as Lithuania and Poland, members of the European Union since May 2004, showed their solidarity not with Germany and France, the key European Union’s states, but with the United States. One can argue that this division of Europe has proved to be short-lived. For one thing, it certainly did not have any effect on the enlargement of 2004. Nonetheless the fact that there is a fundamental difference in the public perception of America in Eastern and Western Europe poses fundamental questions about European identity, Europe’s and America’s transatlantic relations, and the nature of international relations in the post–9/11 world.

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