Western Europe is witnessing a rise in right-wing nationalist and populist movements, a refugee crisis, and the deepening challenges of ethical plurality; Eastern Europe is undergoing crises of emigration, leading to “brain drain” and heightened population politics. This panel investigates how notions of identity and value(s) are negotiated in the context of political, demographic, and ethical crises across Europe. What creative national, local, and individual responses have these conditions of uncertainty prompted, and how have the boundaries of belonging to and in Europe been reimagined as a consequence? How are national identities and values being negotiated among various state and societal actors in relation to sentiments toward “others,” toward other European nations, and toward European belonging? What insights can ethnographic evidence bring to policies and practices around such current challenges? This panel responds to these questions through ethnographic explorations of the lived realities of: different generational responses to the refugee crisis in Germany, a perceived ethical crisis for pious Muslim and Catholic citizens of secular France, Estonia’s innovative e-residency policy as a response to demographic decline, and reading “mobility talk” as expressive of geopolitical and classed anxieties in Serbia.