Development and current status of multiculturalism in Europe

Multiculturalism, for more than fifty years, is one of the cultural and political issues that attract most of the attention of scientists and politicians. In this article, the historical development and current situation of the concept of multiculturalism has been studied. The article also studied and described the results of multiculturalism concept, model of multicultural citizenship and the flow of immigrants from third countries to Europe, along with the modern European multiculturalism. The main purposes of this article are to identify theoretical and practical problems of the policy of multiculturalism, to demonstrate how seriously this policy is affected by nationalist ideology, and to identify cultural minorities, that suffer the most from this trend, using the European example.