what is european? (9)

London, 2006

Despite all the differences between regions, in the western European countries is possible to find a similar pattern of economic development. Social life progressed along similar lines everywhere, based on a high-developed trading system involving the exchange of goods, labour and know-how. This western capitalist trading system formed social groups predisposed to a transnational identification and a common culture could take hold. In fact, economy has being the engine of the European construction and Euro becomes, inclusively, the main European symbol. However not all Europeans uses or even wants to use Euro, and 2004 enlargement increased the economic diversity within the members States. Once more, European identity is an on-going concept.