From national cultural paradigms to European/global cultural paradigms: A Copernican revolution

The polycrisis that the European Union is experiencing calls into question the very essence of the EU itself. Dissemination of national-populist propaganda that feeds the myth of the restoration of national sovereignty, an illusion which is unable to respond to the current challenges. Citizens’ disillusionment with the European Union, which has not met their expectations. Unification can no longer be founded on market and economic criteria alone, rather a sense of belonging to Europe needs to be boosted to make it a point of reference for identity. Shaping the European citizen, who must undertake a Copernican revolution in the paradigms used to interpret the contemporary world, and rethinking what a nation is.