The purpose of this series is to find the true level of national identity within the EU’s east and north (the Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Swedish groups) – probing whether a consolidation process, forming a single pan-European nationality, exists and can replace the state nationality system.

This series provides the reader with a fresh outlook on each of these groups based on a review of its entire history, and it clarifies the role that each European group might play within the EU, based on the typical behavioral patterns within each group and in what way history has shaped that group to be unique. Consequently, it may shed light on the EU and its future political and sociological prospects.