Multiculturalism is D(r)ead in Europe

Abstract

There is a claim currently circulating the European Union (EU), both cynical and misleading: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. No wonder, as the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its most important debates — that of European identity — to the left and right wing parties, recently followed by several selective and contra-productive foreign policy actions. Europe's domestic cohesion, its fundamental realignment, as well as the overall public standing and credibility within its strategic neighborhood, lies in the reinvigoration of its everything but institutions transformative powers — stipulated in the Barcelona process of the European Neighborhood Policy as well as in the Euro-Med partnership (OSCE).