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Without a common identity, a truly united Europe will remain a chimera. But this is the twenty-first century. The elites cannot impose an artificial European identity and hope they can forge cohesion and solidarity among European peoples. What they can do, however, is to build a European identity from below. The ERASMUS exchange programme aims to do precisely that; to create a generation of Europeans naturally and unobtrusively. The book explains why a European identity is necessary for the legitimacy and viability of the EU, and what role cross-border student mobility can play in this respect. Applying an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and drawing on sound empirical data, including the first ever longitudinal survey of Erasmus students' attitudes, the book challenges the stereotypical view of ERASMUS and of its potential to promote a European identity and public support for the EU.

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Emmanuel Sigalas is Assistant Professor of European Politics at the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies and Adjunct Professor at Webster University Vienna. Previously he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of Reading (UK), for which he was awarded a prize by the Political Studies Association and the Theseus Research Network. He has published a number of articles in international journals and edited volumes. His research concentrates on the European identity, the European Parliament and the EU space policy, and his teaching on political theory and EU studies. A former Erasmus student himself, and having lived in Greece, Germany, England, Luxembourg and now in Austria, he still asks himself what it takes to make one European.

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