"While some fans of the European players in golf's Ryder Cup unfurl the flag of the European Union, many persist in waving their national flags despite the multinational composition of the European team." Alan Bairner, Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (2001), p. 2.
Recchi, Ettore (2014). Pathways to European identity formation: a tale of two models. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 27 (2): 119—133. doi:10.1080/13511610.2013.873709. ISSN1351-1610.
Adrian G. V. Hyde-Price, The International Politics of East Central Europe, Manchester University Press, 1996,
p. 60. "The new nationalist myth in Eastern Europe thus attempts to define contemporary national identity in terms of European values and a European cultural heritage. The desire to return to Europe and embrace European values has led to a growing acceptance in much of East Central Europe of liberal democracy, human rights, multilateral cooperation and European integration."
Recchi, Ettore (2014). Pathways to European identity formation: a tale of two models. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. 27 (2): 119—133. doi:10.1080/13511610.2013.873709. ISSN1351-1610.
