Abstract
We have just entered a new millennium; an event very few people in mankind have experienced. The last period of the former century, and especially the beginning of the new one, has been extremely turbulent with the 11 th September, 2001 as the most epoch-making incident. We can see both integration and segregation processes occurring at the same time (Clark, 1997; Tjeldvoll and Holmesland, 1997). The Soviet Union, as one of the superpowers, eroded economically and politically in a disintegration process and was formally dissolved in December 1991. At the same time, December 1991, the countries in the European Community went further towards integration and agreed to be a European Union in new treaty made in the little Dutch town of Maastricht. Europe was no longer divided as before, and there was in sight what president Gorbachev some years earlier had called ‘The European House’ (Gorbachev, 1987).
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