Abstract
The emergence of cultural diversity as a new standard of public policy seems to induce that cultural policies would be its privileged area of diffusion. Following the ratification of Unesco’s Charter on cultural diversity, Western ministries of Culture have integrated this dimension to their discourses. But we can assess considerable distortions in the way through which this issue is actually integrated into public policy. A comparison of national diversity policies in Europe requires at first a cultural assessment of the content of this concept and an analysis of the multiple dimensions to which it concretely refers.