Institutions and Modeling of the European Behavior

The paper here tries to focus on institution's role in what concerns the creation and modeling of the European behaviour. This is understood as European citizens acting accordingly to a set of rules, social standards, values that are agreed by social consensus and institutionalized by Treaties and other measures. It is considered that formal institutions are indispensable for this approach, as there could be no fluid without a recipient to contain it. But the informal ones are important as well because appropriate economic and social (ecological as well) proper behaviours cannot be sustained without an assumed set of values that follow an agreed sense. The paper aims to explore the possibilities that can shape the European behaviour as it concerns Romanians. In the first place this is important as an outside manifestation of an act of individual decision according to an inner values system. In the second place, the ways of adapting behaviour to a system of rules, norms, laws and social customs are overviewed. The need for solidarity, appreciation, knowledge, social recognition of values, a chance to decent living, requires institutional support both formally and informally. It is considered that only the existence of a conditional preference for conformity in combination with the confidence that others will comply may cause congruence between normative beliefs and behaviour. In order to analyse that there is a link between the awareness of a common goal and the economic, social, ecological or cultural behaviour the study base its arguments on recently conducted interviews and on a survey. As for the Romanians, the author believes that there is a verifiable need for the mass awareness of European project in order to support integration through appropriate behaviours.