EUROPEANIZATION AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY BETWEEN THE CULTURE OF MEMORY AND THE CULTURE OF OBLIVION

The article explores how the process of Europeanization affects the shaping of collective cultures of memory and oblivion, and shows in particular how the practice of European institutions in terms of Holocaust remembrance has been institutionalized. Methodologically article focuses on the research of the new institutionalism, and connects them with some elements of social constructivism in the theory of European integration. On the one hand, the culture of memory and the culture of oblivion is described by the action of Europeanization in the politics of the European Union, but also of its Member States in historical and institutional development, while the interpretation of European identity is left open and plural. The research relies on numerous works in th e field of the construction of European identity and the process of Europeanization, especially works that have significantly contributed to this area of political theory of European integration.