The rise of UKIP and other anti-EU parties across Europe has made it abundantly clear that the nations that comprise the European Union have significantly differing views on the what it means to be European. To what extent, if at all, do we share a European identity? Looking at the countries across Europe, from founding members of the Union to the recent accession states, Stephen Green asks if a Europe identity will ever be truly forged. And if it can, what form it might take?