Abstract

Today’s Europe exists in the form of the European Union, a union of states that such as has not previously existed, a project of peace as far as its ideal projection and current state are concerned. Following WWII and the defeat of Fascism, Europe resurrected as a modest idea of the possible. Reasonable, skeptic and realistic, Europeans were well-aware that state-nations and nationstates had to give way to new, more creative and less dangerous entities. Even if not perfect, the EU is the best we have: it is home to human rights, it is not too left nor too right, with its inhabitants being individuals now more than ever. According to one its founding fathers, Jean Monnet, the EU is above all standardization. Although useful and creative in almost all spheres of public life, standardization should not appear in culture regardless of the aspect from which we view culture, since the only thing that it can bring to it is spiritual totalitarianism or imperialism