The Importance Of European Integration

Civilization over the years, decades and centuries has adopted a certain way of thinking, being, and way to behave. This way of being is rooted in values, which are practiced differently between countries. According to Schwartz (2005) "The theory of values defines values as desirable, trans-situational goals, varying in importance that serves as guiding principles in people's lives" (p. 1). To this, he adds that these values come from three basic needs in human lives: social interaction, survival and welfare needs of groups, and that this three extend themselves to ten basic values, which vary from culture to culture and lead to motivational types of values, and all countries make use of them in one way or the other (Annex A). To put this

That's why the European Union was created. After this, it is stated that "the main goal of the European integration process is to overcome traditional power politics based on national interest of the European nation-states via building a new European order based on a common framework of European law" (Austrian Institute for European Security Policy et al., 2005, p. 3). In this same document, the authors explain that the European integration was created in order to avoid the constant wars that have been characteristic of European countries, which date even before the New

Most people from Germany and the Netherlands answered "like me" with 15.9% and 31.7%, respectively, but we find a greater decrease in the percentages as the answer becomes "very much like me" (Annex H). This gives us a hint that what the article European Values and Identity published by Euractiv (2011) says it's true: people in the EU feel attachment to it, but they feel a greater attachment to their culture (p. 5), which in different terms can be described as people wanting to belong to somewhat greater, but at the same time they want to keep to themselves their own culture, because it makes them feel different from the neighboring country. The values in members of the European Union stick to the self-transcendence and openness to change in Annex A, far from the values of people living in Latin America. Hence, universal values is not something that can be taken out of the order, because even if Latin America and Europe, countries don't share equally the same values, there will be a new category that will be global where people will find not only a local, national or multiple country culture, but a new global set of values, added to the ones which people now stick