Which values for which Europe? Prodigies and the confusion of the “European identity”

More than for Georgia, the EU’s Association Agreement of 2014 could be seen as a chance for Europe. European states are linked by History and Culture. But, with the development of international organizations, political discourses have progressively turned juridical. More precisely, legal tools (i.e. European treaties and case-law) have subsumed the more decisive arguments derived from political discourses, dealing with values and a supposed to be shared “European identity”. Indeed, rooting European law in a set of values mentioned by treaties, the European Courts of Strasbourg and Luxembourg reinforce the myth of an everlasting Europe defined through its values, which is closely linked to the idea of “European identity”. Yet, in the context of European integration, it’s important to be aware that such an identity can be nothing but a construct – to which each state interested in may contribute. It raises basically the question of who the European people want to be.