In the History of Europe there had developed an identity based on the common Christian belief and culture in the peoples there, but it was not a full-fledged, or well developed European identity because of the persistent division and the absence of a united, pan-European political and economic life under the feudalism in the Middle Ages. During the modern times in Europe the national-state identities prevailed and became the most important to the European peoples. In the post-war European integration there have been different ideas with respect to the problem of identity, i. e. whether to pres...
