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5 months agoMost articles in this vein use Europe for shorthand for the EU. Chileans and Bolivians feel similarly about America being used as shorthand for the USA.
The EU is obviously more than a common market today, evidenced in law, courts, institutions, schools, banks, telecoms, arts, society, science. It has a definite common identity, albeit one that is typically not predominant by design. It doesn’t detract from national identities.
Genuinely curious as to where this isn’t elementary knowledge?
Are you from a region that never had a similar practice or one where it has become inconspicuous, e.g. father of the bride “giving away” their daughter?