This paper is concerned with social identity, particularly with the antagonism between "European identity", which reflects the achievements of the integration process of the European Union, and the xenophobic "Identitarian Movement", which strives for the disintegration of any supranational...

For extended periods, the European integration project was an unquestioned success story, delivering advances such as the tariff union, the internal market, the single currency, and an ever-increasing number of Member States. European integration now seems to have come to a stalemate, or is even...