“United in Adversity”. On the Importance of European Identity in a Post-Coronavirus World

... very active in terms of European sentiment. Why is The Development of a Shared Identity so Fundamental? According to Paul Collier, professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford University, at the root of any economic development lies a sense of identity [ 4 ]. Every society presents a dual composition, a power structure, and an identity component. In the absence of the latter, power dissolves into a theatre, meaning directives are less likely to be respected (e.g., different member states' response to the refugee ...