Cultural Heritage: Implementing the EU Legitimizing Strategy ‒ The Case of the Interreg Program

Today, the EU is involved in the area of heritage, particularly through the Interreg Program. How can we interpret the EU’s investment in the cultural field, which is intrinsically linked to the nation-building process? Cross-border heritage production can be analyzed as a way for the EU to forge a European cultural identity based on a mosaic pattern, given its inability to create a substantial geo-strategic narrative to legitimize its political authority. The EU should favor shared regionalized identities and thus encourage mutual understanding.