The rise of UKIP and other anti-EU parties across Europe has made it abundantly clear that the nations that comprise the European Union have significantly differing views on the what it means to be European. To what extent, if at all, do we share a European identity? Looking at the countries across Europe, from founding members of the Union to the recent accession states, Stephen Green asks if a Europe identity will ever be truly forged. And if it can, what form it might take?

Stephen Green was an international banker and Minister for Trade and Investment between 2011-13. He chairs the Natural History Museum, is an ordained priest of the Church of England, and sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords. He is the author of Reluctant Meister: How Germany's Past is Shaping its European Future.