Social Sciences 2013; 2(2): 66-75 Published online May 30, 2013 (http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ss) doi: 10.11648/j.ss.20130202.17 The politicization of European identity in international scientific circles Liljana Siljanovska South East European University, Tetovo, Republic of Macedonia Email address: siljanovska2002@yahoo.com(L. Siljanovska) To cite this article: Liljana Siljanovska. The Politicization of European Identity in International Scientific Circles. Social Sciences. Vol. 2, No. 2, 2013; pp. 66-75. doi: 10.11648/j.ss.20130202.17 Abstract: European Union introduces the right of European citizenship with the Maastricht treaty of 1992. This law explains the direct relationship between citizens and the Union, giving European citizens in case of need, especially when outside the European Union, to be represented by any Consulate of a country - member of the Union. This applies in cases when it is different from their national state. Certainly these issues are beyond the powers of an international organization because they are related to constitutional norms of a state that in accordance with the structure of national groups to determine the qualifications of its own, national identity. It is therefore not surprising that the Union was in the process to discuss their own constitution which is still trying to be enacted. On the other hand, the resolution of these questions posed by the need to reach agreement on political integration, as the highest degree of integration between countries.The politicization of European identity in international scientific circles is more of a question as a practical reality versus efforts of the Union for Americanization of European cultural space that imposes globalization to the values of culture, especially the media space. If it’s known that the definition of European values is actually determining the global, universal norms and rules of behavior especially regarding human rights, freedoms and the characteristics that occur and determine identities of nations, it is difficult to generalize and practice as European identity. In this direction moves the same qualification of the Union as a community of national and cultural differences. From there, efforts to build the European identity in terms of institutional and financial crisis of the Union are harder to accrue out of the narrow, national frameworks of member states. Old and new 'ladies' the Union, the division of Eastern and Western Europe, the rich north and poor south, is deeply rooted in Western European mental code-category that in later time defines Europe's identity crisis. Keywords: European Citizenship, European Identity, European Values, a Crisis of Identity, Americanization 1. Introduction The resistance of people to change and things depends on the importance of the change itself that we wish to suggest. Its importance is the safest sign that we are on a good way towards true change – notes in his memoirs one of the founders of the European Union, Jean Monnet1. In that sense, the concept of citizenship of the European Union in the scientific circles is more and more understood as a collective memory which the Maastricht Treaty wants to establish as European identity with the Member States. Here arise theoretic questions which in the impossibility to establish the new discourse due to the diversity of identities entail new contemporary scientific dilemmas imposed by contemporary practice. For instance, what does European 1 Europe Our Mutual Home, 2007:69 identity mean? What are the dimensions of the cultural identity, i.e. how can the relations between the identity and identifier be determined? Does that mean an attempt to disorganize social groups in intercultural communication, a neo-colonist principle instead of self-determination in contacts with other social groups and cultures? Is there a creation of a new paradigm in European pragmatics – from Europe to the cultural and national diversities in the European identity? If so, then this milestone will certainly have a long-term tradition in the foreign denotation toward the Americans or the Balkan people. Among Europeans there exist nations and cultures such as Germans, French, Italians, and Romanians which as an unwritten rule stratify themselves as old and new ladies of Europe. The problem connected to this dimension of functioning of the European identity arises from the fact that individuals, and even whole social groups in the European