Dual loyalties European Identity and National identity a security risk?

Dual loyalty arises when citizens of a state or a sub group within a state or group could challenge their loyalty to the state. For the citizens in general, the EU is more of a distant community than the nationstate. What does dual loyalties and the European Identity versus citizens national identity has to do with insider risks?

The EU Security specialist Daniel Moberg identified the risk of EU-mission staff seconded from EU member states are fighting dual loyalties. In his quantitive study he pinpointed the risk of national interests and expectations are prioritized which affect the information security safety.

Despite the fact that EU rules and regulations cover almost every issue and override national law, EU authorities do not implement European rules and regulations, but national and sub national authorities do. Even though dual identities for European citizens are harmonized, dual loyalties challenge the protective security and insider prevention. Hence, the national citizenship and EU citizenship challenge the data protection, dual loyalties are known as a risk when it comes to insider prevention where the vulnerabilities, trustworthiness and loyalties are the pillars of an assessment of staff, seconded or contracted.

A transnational society and globalization changes the mindset not only of the individual citizen but the society overall. Already in the 1950s, the professor Ernst B. Haas mentioned that transferring loyalty to Europe and the EU is feasible without giving up the national identity. His research emphasized the process would take time. Crisis will accelerate the process. Russia's war in Ukraine, the need of unify Europe to meet Russia's aggression has stressed the process of multiple identities, not only the National and European, but also NATO membership. On March 2024, the European Council adopted conclusions on Ukraine, security and defense, the Middle East, enlargement and reforms, external relations, migration, agriculture, preparedness and crisis response and the European Union.

The democratic principles of the EU and its member states need to be re:vived and re:asserted caused by the extreme urgency as the recent attacks in various countries of Europe have so tragically reminded us. European internal and external security may be a factor to use to strengthen the feeling of belonging to a common whole. The more solid a dual identity, the easier to cope with dual loyalty. The European identity is important to building a secure society and a safer Europe.