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This paper describes that a wide range of the principles and practices of the EU make reference to a set of fundamental values, whose origin and homogeneity is seldom put into question. According to the author, if the EU faces a security challenge, it is related to its security as a community of values. The author argues that while values themselves, and the communities that hold them as their foundation, are indestructible, it is their forms of institutionalization which come under threat. By the very nature of the relation between institutions and values, this insecurity is structurally unavoidable.