The article aims at analyzing the cultural and linguistic diversity in Europe as
values worth being preserved since they are a guarantee for open consciousness.
Multiculturalism and multilingualism contribute to the goals of job creation and
sustainable growth. Multilingualism, which is a vital and integral part of Europe's
rich and cultural diversity, is a way out of the deep crisis that has gripped Europe
because the continent is a huge labor market, where English is the working
language, but knowledge of a universal language is not enough. The paper
emphasizes upon a very significant issue whose essence is: the task of our time is to
be able to realize that the unity of the human race lies in diversity. It is therefore
not accidental that the motto of the European Union states “United in diversity”.
The case of Bulgaria as a part of the European Union is also scrutinized in the
article. Bulgarians have lived for centuries at a crossroads between Europe and
Asia along with various peoples and ethnicities. This serves as an explanation as to
why the Balkans are a multicultural region despite the fact that it was often
associated with fragmentation and wars. An inference has been drawn that it is
apparent the modern Bulgarian people can find their identity at the European
Union level, at the Balkans’ level, at the level of the Bulgarian tradition, even at the
level of the local community. And it is feasible to have productive cooperation
between these levels of identities.