(De)-Constructing and Desmitifying European Union`s Founded Value of Solidarity

  • Antoni Abat i Ninet University of Copenhagen
Keywords: Solidarity, deconstruction, myth, Founded Value

Abstract

Over these past few years, both the European Union (“EU”) as a whole and some of its member states have faced unprecedented challenges that have seriously put at risk not only the EU project in its entirety but also the integrity of some of its limbs: the economic crisis started in 2008, the migration crisis with its bulk of humanitarian implications and political tensions, Brexit and the Catalan independence referendum, the surge of populism, or the current COVID-19 crisis, are just examples of this complex phenomenon. Against this problematic backdrop lurks the value of solidarity, a principle that is not only deeply embedded in the constitutional texts of some of its member states, but it has profoundly informed the EU model since its inception. Taking solidarity more seriously and rediscover its legal (not just its moral/aspirational) meaning could thus represent a concrete tool to tame the tensions that traverse the continent and a way out of the various crises that threaten its very essence.

Received: 03.03.2020
Accepted: 12.06.2020
Published online: 03.07.2020

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Author Biography

Antoni Abat i Ninet, University of Copenhagen

Professor Constitutional law

Published
2020-07-03
How to Cite
Abat i Ninet, Antoni. 2020. “(De)-Constructing and Desmitifying European Union`s Founded Value of Solidarity”. Estudios De Deusto 68 (1), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.18543/ed-68(1)-2020pp287-305.
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Studies