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EU resilience in times of COVID? Polity maintenance, public support, and solidarity
This introduction presents the theoretical framework, aims, and summary of this special issue. We want to explain the European Union’s (EU) response...
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Should EU member states help each other? How the national context shapes individual preferences for European solidarity
With the outbreak of the Eurozone crisis, the idea of providing cross-national financial transfers to countries in economic and financial...
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Closer in hard times? The drivers of European solidarity in ‘normal’ and ‘crisis’ times
This article examines the trends and differences in predictors of public support for European Union (EU) fiscal solidarity using two individual...
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A supranational solidaristic space? Comparative appraisal of determinants of individual support for European solidarity in the COVID-19 era
COVID-19 created profound shockwaves across the Union, pushing supranational crisis policymaking to the forefront of European politics and fostering...
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Bulgaria: Free-Riding on EU Solidarity
The concepts of burden sharing and solidarity have remained somewhat distant to some of the member states and had only a limited impact on the...
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Solidarity Clashes with Geopolitics in EU-Turkey Relations
COVID-19 hit Turkey and the EU (European Union) at a time when bilateral relations were already strained. Early in March, the two sides were engaged...
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Gone with the Pandemic?—Portugal and EU Solidarity
European Union solidarity in Portuguese terms goes back to the 1974 Carnation Revolution, with a package of economic emergency aid, the renegotiation...
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The Schengen Area as a fair-weather project? A discursive analysis of solidarity
Recently, critical voices have raised concerns that EU member states are unwilling to express solidarity and proclaimed that EU solidarity was dead....
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Solidarity as the Small State Mantra for Malta’s EU Membership
Malta is the EU’s smallest and most densely populated member state, situated south of Italy in the central Mediterranean. Keenly aware of its...
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“The Lost Art of Organising Solidarity”: Articulating the Decolonial Multitude in the EU (and Beyond)
Much has been written on the ‘multitude’ as the democratic political subject, yet less emphasis has been placed on develo** an empirical...
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Measuring solidarity: towards a survey question on fiscal solidarity in the European Union
Comparing solidarity attitudes between EU citizens is significant in the context of European integration, since solidarity—or rather the lack...
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European Solidarity out of Self-Interest: Iceland and Crisis Management in the EU
Decisions regarding the closure and reopening of Iceland’s borders tested the country’s solidarity with its fellow member states of the Schengen Area...
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Cyprus’ Quest for EU Solidarity: Juxtaposing Community Values with National Interest
EU solidarity is a founding principle for advancing a sense of community in Europe, with the quest for its attainment being amplified during times of...
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European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe Views from the Capitals
This book sheds light on how member states and EU neighbours reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of European solidarity, what they...
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Solidarity: A European Value?
Solidarity is considered essential for the sustainability of societies, both at the level of individual contributions to society and as an aspect of...
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Flexible Solidarity and the Limits of Altruism in Czechia
Solidarity is amongst those peculiar political notions that have taken on different meanings in the context of Czech politics. Together with the...
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Reconciling (Economic) Regionalism and Solidarity
In this chapter, I explore the relationship between solidarity and federalism, whether they are antithetical concepts, and speculate on possible...
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The Politics of In/Exclusion in the EU: Refugees and Migrants
This chapter focuses on another increasingly contentious inclusion policy area: the lack of solidarity among member states when develo** an...
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Going beyond the pandemic: ‘next generation eu’ and the politics of sub-regional coalitions
The article aims to explain the 2020 approval of ‘Next Generation EU’, the program for hel** the EU member states to go beyond the pandemic. The...
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Danish Frugal Solidarity
During the COVID-19 crisis, Denmark was rock-bottom on a pan-European tracker that was monitoring acts of solidarity among the EU member states. At...