How the Refugee Crisis changed the conception of European identity

... discourse, emphasizing the distance between the two cultures. This unfortunately impacts the reception of immigration by the public opinion, and the policy that is to be implemented by the EU. Even if the EU is strongly dedicated to separation between religion and politics and that its identity - on paper - is ‘pluralist, flexible, rationalist and claiming universality’[10], religion still plays a role in permitting traditional, Christian people[11] to have more legitimacy in the policy-making process. Secularism can thus ...