Introduction to the Special Issue
5 Colum. J. Eur. L. 365 (1999) George A. Bermann. The subject of this year’s topical issue of the Columbia Journal of European Law promises to be topical for some time to come. Every model of European integration that has been competing for consideration-whether within the Union institutions or within the corridors of national power, or virtually anywhere for that matter- presupposes a European identity of sorts. Butjust at the time that a “European” identity might hope to be developing in the midst of the “national” identities with which it was commonly contrasted, the identity “landscape” has itself been growing […]