Narody w integrującej się Europie

The paper presents a thesis that European integration and globalization are causes of the erosion of national identities. Attributes which are commonly tied with nation: language, separate territory, confession become less and less important. People who can in their everyday activity have profits of unlimited flows of capital, service and can chose their place of living, lose interest in their identifica- tion through those factors; they can speak fluently not only in their native language but in other languages as well; they can leave their territory without political barriers; their traditional confession is not as strong as it used to be earlier. Their identity - especially on higher strata of social stratification - is no more given them, but rather chosen now.