It's summer. A time when Europeans leave their familiar surroundings to go and relax, to explore other countries. A privileged moment for reflection and reading. In this last edition before the new school year, Notre Europe intends to revisit a theme that has recently taken a tense and controversial turn in many European countries, that of identity. The rise of the Lega Nord in Italy, of Jobbik in Hungary, of the PVP in the Netherlands and of the N-VA in Flanders - these show the success with which the supporters of nationalism and the advocates of an overhaul of the collective pact of solidarity addressed the 2010 elections. The estrangement that these preachers of cultural purity propose to treat is that of the autochtones, rooted citizens who no longer feel “at home” in their town. Why is it so difficult to represent transcultural spaces in today’s Europe? In her study entitled “Estrangements" Aziliz Gouez engages in a penetrating examination of the dangerous decoupling asserting itself in Europe between the dynamics of economic integration and intensity of migration on the one hand, and expressions of political and cultural exclusiveness on the other. Reading the interviews collected in the anthology “European encounters” also allows for some distance in our questioning of identity. Whether architect, filmmaker, writer, historian, or poet, born during the Roaring Twenties, during the Second World War or the 1970s - all those interviewed agreed to undertake an in-depth dialogue on European identity. A multiplicity of voices, therefore, speaking of how Europe is lived, imagined and built at the turn of the twenty-first century.