There is a shared European cultural heritage that goes beyond the diversity of expressions that constitutes much of its wealth. European culture is part and parcel of the European way of life; anybody who needs convincing of this should simply book a flight to somewhere else in the world. This is true if you take the word ‘culture’ in the classical sense (art, literature, theatre) and if you take it in its broader, more anthropological sense (sociologists talk of convergences of the...