Katarina Ludrovska

Slovak Youth and the European Identity: Slovak National Identity and Europeanization Katarina Ludrovska

What is "Europe" for Slovak youth? What do young Slovaks mean when they say that they feel "European"? Slovakia has come through difficult transformation process. After the fall of communism in 1989, Slovakia became an independent state in 1993. Just eleven years after, Slovak Republic entered the European Union and in 2008 joined the Euro zone. What impact do these significant social changes have on youth? Author belongs to the young Slovak generation who experienced all above mentioned changes. In this book author examines the Slovak youth and she also tries to find out whether they turn more to the EU level for their political or individual goals, or whether their socio-political horizon does remain mainly national. Author aims at the correlation between Slovak national identity and Europeanization. She also attempts to find out whether the so called "shift of loyalties" is actually happening in Slovakia. To put it in a nutshell, the author tries to discover whether or not the young generation in Slovakia has moved from nation-state to Europe. This book may be useful to all people interested in the current issue of the "European identity".