Katherine McElroy on a shared European identity

The journalist Katherine McElroy responds to an article (published on December 23rd) entitled ''Europe: creating an imagined geography' by Stefanos Evripidou. "Basically, he's saying that this shared identity is a joke. ... This kind of 'imagined geography', we are told, can be used as a tool of power to control and subordinate the subjects of that space as well as dictate behaviour to those outside that imagined space. Well, every nation controls space, though not all nations subordinate their subjects. And every border affects those outside it. ... But Europe (or anywhere else for that matter) isn't an identity-less, geography-less, history-less, free-for-all. Far from being some kind of meaningless place, most Europeans want it. What they don't entirely agree on is on issues that impinge on their own individual identities. The larger issues do not appear to be in question."

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