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. These voices are sometimes in tune, sometimes in discordance, their succession does not allow us to see a European "grand narrative”, but rather entail the realization that in this continent broken by the crimes of the previous century, the epic mode has become impossible (and that this is perhaps a good thing...). In addition to these two publications, which inform and complement each other, we offer two case studies under the framework of the "European Works" project: the first, entitled Timişoara, un chantier identitaire aux confins de l'Europe, by Cristina Stanculescu, explores the relationship that the Romanians maintain with Europe ; the second, entitled Images yougoslaves. Cinéma yougoslave et figures de l’Autre en Europe, by Laëtitia Delamare, invites us to revisit the cliches that stick to the Western Balkans and to rediscover a complex society of which the Yugoslav directors beautifully depict its life and myths, history and bottlenecks, cities and countryside, and hopes and disappointments[Translate to english:]