European Welfare Solidarity in Focus: High Support for European Social Safety Net
Europeans exhibit strong approval for the EU to support vulnerable individuals with little differences in approval rates between countries. ...
Posts Tagged ‘Solidarity’
Justice and the European Union
Within what parameters can Rawlsian distributional justice be applied to the EU? ...
Designing a post-crisis European Union
This collection of essays considers the key issues that must be addressed by European citizens and institutions if recent turmoil is to be overcome....
Juncker’s SOTEU 2016: Solidarity, Innovation, and Political Action
Juncker’s latest State of the European Union speech was less emotional and more pragmatic than the previous one. This might be the result of the EU’s political crisis....
Ideas Monitor #34/2016
This week we cover the need for economic reforms in Europe, the divisions after Brexit and the handling of the refugee crisis....
Political Briefing #71/2016
The strategy to deal with the uncertainty raised by the EU Referendum of 23 June seems to be increasingly focused on putting new efforts to relaunch the European project....
Family, neighbourhood community or a partnership among strangers? A conversation on the EU
In “The Germanization of Europe”, Maurizio Ferrera reproaches Germany for not treating its EU partners like members of a family. But family entails responsibilities as well as solidarity....
The challenges of the European social model: An interview with Elsa Fornero
In Elsa Fornero’s view, European Welfare Systems face multiple crises: a European social model based on the values of cohesion and participation could be able to resist to pressures and centrifugal ...
Ideas Monitor #1/2015
In this issue: Political Leadership - Brexit - Eu Solidarity - Refugee Crisis...
Re-solidarizing Europe and defusing the crisis
As famously argued by Max Weber, world images and visions can sometimes operate as switchmen, channelling historical developments towards new directions. But ideas need political ‘carriers’. Today...
The emergence of territorial solidarity in the US during the Great Depression. What can the EU learn from it?
What can the EU learn from the American experience of interstate solidarity?...
How Weberian is Angela Merkel?
Far from betraying the teachings of Max Weber, Angela Merkel’s policy on the refugees makes her a true Weberian leader....
Ideas Monitor #36/2016
This week we look at post-liberal tendencies in Eastern Europe, the case for representative democracy and and the potential solutions to the European socio-economic crisis....
The travails and rebirth of social dialogue in the post-crisis EU
While there are signs that social dialogue has been revitalized after the euro crisis, its full recovery as a policy-making tool is yet to come....
Is European social justice possible? An interview with Salvatore Veca
We have interviewed political philosopher Salvatore Veca on Europe’s current crisis and the possibility of solutions based on social justice....
Ideas Monitor #26/2016
This week we cover who is responsible for Brexit, possible future scenarios for the EU, and the economic cleavage and the state of the left....
The religious foundations of the European Crisis
The European sovereign debt crisis has opened a rift between European countries. It runs between North and South and between Catholic and Protestant nations. Are we witnessing a European clash of cult...
Solidarity and the Future of Europe
The debate on the future of Europe should be a rallying cry for redeeming the promise of fraternite, which under conditions of economic globalisation can be realized only by politically catching up wi...
The EU core-periphery debate on social media
The debate between EU core and peripheral countries is more diverse than it might seem at a first glance....
Ideas Monitor #43/2016
This week’s IM discusses the dangers posed by populism and whether neoliberal Europe is likely to continue....
Thematic Briefing #1/2016: The EU Refugee Quota System
The first of a new series of briefings on topical issues in European politics....
Political Briefing #77/2016
Juncker delivered his 2016 State of the European Union speech. In the meantime the refugee crisis continues to tear the continent apart and discussions on post-Brexit scenarios still constitute a big ...
The reasons why the crisis is here to stay
If someone told you that there is a book explaining the euro crisis better and more objectively than any other, would you be interested in that?...
What ideas of justice and solidarity for the EU? Some answers from Amsterdam
The question of what conception of justice should inform the EU is still open. The participants in this symposium tackle the issue by proposing different views on how the idea of social Europe should ...
Financial challenges to solidarity: Completing the European banking union
The European Union’s banking union is an important step forward on the path of further integration. Without incorporating proper mechanisms of solidarity, however, it risks remaining an incomplete c...
A compulsory civilian service to promote the European identity
This article presents an argument in favour of a EU-wide civilian service as the first pillar of a strengthened European identity....
Citizens’ views on inter-state solidarity and social Europe
Attitudes towards inter-state solidarity in the EU can be explained by nationality and political leaning. Preferences for a more social Europe, conversely, are more widespread....
Solidarity, charity and stability
Realistic solidarity should be understood as opposed to charity. So conceived, solidarity benefits the less advantaged with material welfare, and the well-off with socio-political stability....
Political Briefing #82/2016
Brexit continues to be one of the foremost topics in the European political debate, while the refugee crisis continues to be a very divisive issue among EU member states....
The end of the European left? Alternatives after crisis, Syriza and Brexit
Rather than clinging to traditional notions of social Europe, European leftists should look at the continent’s emerging civil society experiments to find a way for the future....
Restricting access to social benefits and the lasting legacy of the Brexit debate
In an attempt to accommodate some of the United Kingdom’s requests, the European Court of Justice has created a dangerous precedent for the EU’s freedom of movement....
Territory, Politics and Growth: Opportunities and Challenges
Territories and space have acquired a new salience in the post-industrial, globalized politico-economic systems. In addition to great opportunities, however, spatial politics implies a number of threa...
Fraternity: a realistic starting point for solidarity
That solidarity still seems in scarce supply within the EU should not be cause for despair, as another important ideal resource might help Europe support its own transition to a political community: t...
