““While political scientists see ‘Europe’ either as a new form of political structure, having little in common with the nation-state, or as a structure for advancing the interests of existing nation-states, Delors wants to create a new state, ‘Europe’, and to create with it a new ‘nation’ based on some supposed cultural identity that can be defined only in terms of what it is not, what it is antithetical to. Delors””
