National Constitutional Identity Confronted With the Constraints of European Union Law
Journal: Studies of the Central European Professors’ Network
Year: 2023

This chapter considers some of the developments on national identity presented in a previous publication but focuses specifically on the analysis of the construction of a ‘European identity’ and the points of friction between these two types of identity. Constitutional identity corresponds to the essential elements of national identity a person has decided to include in its constitution, thus giving them legal scope. Na- tional identity enables the identification of a political community. This s