۱٫ Reasons behind slow standardization

۲٫ Understanding the diversity

۳٫ Contradictions between national and European

۴٫ Strategy to redefine Europeans

۵٫ Results

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It is known that the numerical expansion of the population and the diversity within the European Union (EU) change the complexity of the standardisation process. A socio-demographic analysis revealed the items frequently mentioned among the most important sources of European and National identities that has to be considered when standardize services. Another issue of the study is the fact that both the standardization process and the balance between National and European identities are in fact dynamic, changing over time. Starting with this paper, we can later explain how the globalization of economies influences the notion of National identity.

Reasons behind slow standardization

Services sectors comprise a wide range of economic activities, from banking, education, IT and transport, to childcare, cleaning and hospitality. The freedom of services movement is one of the foundations of the single market – replacing national and often conflicting standards – along with the freedoms of movement of persons, goods and capital. In one of these areas, respectively goods, the European standardization system has already made an important contribution, principally by means of the “New Approach” to legislation, designed to prevent the creation of technical barriers to trade. The European Council of 4 February 2011 confirmed that standardization is a crucial framework condition to boost private investment in innovative services and that standardization processes should be accelerated, simplified and modernized. For that, the ESOs should reduce the average time to develop European standardization deliverables requested by the Commission (50%) until 2020. In addition, the Regulation will streamline and shorten the procedure for objections to a harmonized standard. Despite the increasing growth of the standardization provision role, standardization activity has been controlled towards local development, with the vast majority of service standards developed at national, rather than European level. In this situation we raise the question relating to the slow standardization process and the reason behind that. To offer pertinent answers, we decided to investigate also the impact of diverse national identity and the integrated migration process studies at the EU level.