Europe is not yet comfortable with social diversity. The complexity it generates keeps on generating tensions, especially in the context of new migration flows. With the refugee crisis, the French are testing the limits of assimilation as a model of integration, while the Netherlands is grappling with a growing distance between Dutch identity and ‘Dutch tolerance’. The question is whether diversity and integration are compatible and can be reconciled. In particular, does the secular separation of private and public identities reflected in the French laïcité still make sense? As European societies are faced with growing diversity, this calls for the transformation of their integration models. Whether we like it or not, this reflection has become difficult to avoid, says Eline Chivot in EurActiv. The full article can be read here.