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Transnational solidarity: a transformative narrative for the EU and its citizens?
Empirical studies provide increasingly powerful evidence of solidarity in Europe, although attitudes and practices vary across States and policies,...
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The Extent of Solidarity—(Mis)interpretation in Slovakia
Solidarity is considered as one of the EU’s common values and as such has been a feature of the European project from the outset. Economic solidarity...
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EU Solidarity in Action: The Curious Case of North Macedonia—Welcomed Amidst Quarantine!
The year 2020 proved to be exceedingly noteworthy for North Macedonia, not just because of the domestic political crisis and the assorted and...
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Belgium: Struggling with Solidarity
As Belgium is still perceived as a traditional pro-integration EU member state, European solidarity is expected to be part of the country’s DNA....
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Spain’s View of European Solidarity: A Pro-EU Attitude and a Self-Perception of Weakness
Spain is a country prone to exploiting the idea of solidarity in European debates, which is not to imply that it is always an exemplary member state...
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Chinese perceptions of the EU: the impact of social media use
With the rise of China and the deepening of China-EU interactions, it is crucial for both China and the EU to know the Chinese public perceptions of...
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Poland: From the Solidarity Movement to Non-reciprocal European Solidarity
For Poland solidarity is an important concept with many positive historical associations. However, in the international, specifically European,...
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Andreas Papandreou: Towards the European Solidarity
The founders of the European Community observed the existence of inequalities and disparities between territories, for which reduction or elimination...
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Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression: how crises shape Europeanization dynamics in EU foreign policy
The European Union’s response to Russia’s war of aggression has run contrary to expectations of EU foreign policy inaction and incoherence as well as...
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The Netherlands: Solidarity and Responsibility Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Solidarity is a fundamental principle of EU cooperation, referred to in Article 2 one of the first provisions of the Treaty on the European Union....
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Policymaking in the EU under crisis conditions: Covid and refugee crises compared
We study how crises situations shape the political decision-making structure of the EU and the responses adopted by European policy makers by...
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Issue framing, news value and national interest: communicating EU crises in China
Despite many studies having investigated journalism and media transformation in China in recent years, how Chinese media communicate international...
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Conditioned solidarity: EU citizens’ attitudes towards economic and social austerities for crisis countries receiving financial aid
During the European debt crisis, there has been a massive political debate between the EU institutions and the governments of crisis countries on the...
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The politics of the EU eco-social policies
In recent years, the debate over the need to address ecological and social concerns has grown substantially. Phenomena such as the Gilets Jaunes in...
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Finland: Cherry-Picking on Solidarity?
Current debate on EU solidarity in Finland displays two seemingly conflicting trends. Amidst a deteriorating European security policy landscape,...
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Romania Relies on the EU’s Solidarity Budget to Overcome the Pandemic
Romania is one of the most Euro-supportive nations, albeit a little less so of late, with trust in the EU ranging between 51% (Eurobarometer 2017)...
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The EU Budget and Recovery Plan: A Chance for EU Ambition?
The European elections of May 2019 paved the way for a new era for the European Union (EU): new institutions, new membership (Brexit), a new...
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EU-Ukraine: Towards a New Quality of Solidarity
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered economic turbulence, state egoism and lockdown anarchy. Against this background, confrontation between the West...
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United Kingdom: Brexit Meets European Solidarity
A recurrent Leave campaign claim during the 2016 EU referendum was that it would be easy for the United Kingdom, once it had decided to leave the EU,...
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Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus
This article analyses the performance of EU policy towards Belarus, the effectiveness of the EU’s “critical engagement” with the regime in 2014–2020...