Where does the European really feel at home, if not in his academic culture, in his mother tongue, in his Christian tradition? Attending to these three dimensions, I will look at the European construction, which, as a house, is both inclusive and exclusive. But it happens that this very sense of homeliness is put in check today by the fear of having to lose it all. The intellectual norms and values of the University life are threatened, the liberty of speaking our own national language, instead of a constraining “lingua franca”, is reduced to the private space, the will to recall the Christian roots of the historical Europe and of the European Union is more and more controversial. No wonder that, under such circumstances, the European citizen should see his home as definitely mortgaged.
