"sense of shared identity" may be a bit loose; I meant in the sense of not feeling a constituent part of a common political community. Plenty consider themselve

"sense of shared identity" may be a bit loose; I meant in the sense of not feeling a constituent part of a common political community. Plenty consider themselves European (I suspect rather more in the UK since the Brexit vote made the question a bit more salient) but I doubt there are many whose principal allegiance is to the European Union, rather than France, the UK, England or Yorkshire. And yes, this is an informed assumption rather than based on a particular survey. In practical terms, as someone else stated, European Parliament elections are conducted as a series of more-or-less isolated national campaigns, with a weak sense of a body of citizens making a decision as a continental group. This is perhaps beginning to change, with the Europarties nominating explicit lead candidates for the presidency of the Commission at the last Parliament election, which provides a certain cross-border unifying factor. It's notable that in my country (the UK) these candidates were barely mentioned, though, and the race was treated as a proxy fight for future control of the Westminster parliament, or as a chance to elect eurosceptics to protest the EU as a whole.