![]() Without necessarily endorsing Denis de Rougemont's view according to which Europe has in fact existed for the past twenty-eight centuries 1, one can positively assert that the European Union with its ideal of inalienable individual liberties undeniably corresponds to a specific representation of the human kind, which appeared in the 17 th and 18 th centuries, in Enlightenment Europe. Of course the European cultural cohesion finds its deepest roots in Europe's rich antique background, made up of Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian legacies, each having contributed in the linguistic, political, philosophical and moral structures of this continent. ![]() ![]() ![]() This article offers to focus on the historical, philosophical and cultural contexts which paved the way for the political and administrative entity that the European Union has become over the last few decades. ![]()
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