A note on the EU Parliament election

Last days have been election days for the EU Parliament. One of the most important results is that around 40 % of all EU citizens cared to vote (much less in the East European countries). How to interpret that a majority of people in the EU countries did not bother to take the walk to the election offices?
My guess is that this is an identity question, or rather a non-identity question. The majority does not – yet – want to be identified as We-are-Europeans, at least not in a political sense. Nationalism is ahead of Internationalism. The smaller the group the stronger the feeling of identity. This is a sort of curse for mankind, because this need of an identity with a small group makes it much, much harder to arrange good enough co-operations over the borders. The others are the others – and we are not like the others. It is much easier to go to war against those aliens than to build bridges of mutual understanding and to create constructive agreements, joining each other.
I am against nationalism. I look upon myself as an internationalist. That is why I am pro EU.