IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA CA SIMBOL ŞI PRINCIPIU AL UNIUNII EUROPENE. ÎNTRE IDEALUL UNITĂŢII EUROPENE, TRATATUL DE LA LISABONA ŞI CRIZA ECONOMICĂ GLOBALĂ
IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA AS SYMBOL AND PRINCIPLE OF EUROPEAN UNION – BETWEEN THE IDEAL OF A EUROPEAN UNITY, TREATY OF LISBON AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

Summary/Abstract: In the context of economic, ethnic or linguistic, even religious diversity, nowadays, Europe aims at an unprecedented political and economic unity. European Union, as a symbol ofEuropean unity for the entire continent, at least as widely accepted paradigm, is today not only a political and economic reality, but also a legal one, based however on significant cultural diversity. Europe was and still remains the symbol of unity in diversity, a community of civilizations and balance, but also a community of religious and cultural division. Undoubtedly, beyond the approaches that are rarely based on clear semantic definitions and concepts or precise determination of reality, multiculturalism and interculturalism are obvious realities of European Union, both as given and attitude. Moreover, we may add as particular approach, the idea of cultural identity and cultural otherness, the best definition of the ideal of European unity, as a unique space of civilization, yet extremely diverse and understood by all citizens who feel to be European, even during global economic crisis such as the one in the last three years. This is why the education in the spirit of general European values, but also in the spirit of multiculturalism as fundament of European space must be an ideal, a goal for the Romanian educational system.

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