The crossroads of European Union. The risk of a new rape of Europe

Abstract

At the present times there is some kind of fatalism about the difficulties to approach the crisis in the European Union, about the possibility to approach the difficult environment with a single voice. Not strangers to these difficulties are external speculative practices that hover over the Union, increasing the fear of a kidnapping serving foreign interest. To intensify European citizens participation and to increase their sense of identity seem to be the most suitable reactions to serve, not only to the European interests but, specially, to the values of democracy and human dignity as well as to guarantee the rights and freedoms that are fudamental to European construction.