Solidarity in the European Union: Fundamental Value or “Empty Signifier”

Grimmel, Andreas

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“…This announcement was met with a strong resistance, and was regarded as an intrusion of European internal policy. In September 2015, Juncker again asked European countries to welcome 160,000 asylum seekers [6].…”

Section: European People's Party (Epp) Dan the Republicans (Lr)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Politics of Syrian Refugee Public Policy 2015 - 2016: A Study of the Influence of the French National Party on European Parliament Member Votes

Cindra¹,

Juwono²

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Administrative Science, Policy, and Governance Studies, I

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In 2015 a crisis occurred in Europe because of the influx of millions of refugees from the Middle East and Africa, mainly from Syria. The EU, as a supranational institution responsible for this issue, sought to resolve the crisis by issuing policies. One of the European Union institutions in charge of policy is the European Parliament. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) while in parliament are no longer representatives of national parties, but representatives of European political groups. Making use of behavioral patterns theory in the process of public policy and the network of actors, this paper seeks to prove that France's national party does have an influence on the European Parliament (EP) members in the Syrian refugee policy of the European Union 2015-2016. European political groups are not the sole determinants of the decision of the French MEPs because this policy is crucial. This influence is seen when national parties and European groups have different views on an issue.

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Section: European People's Party (Epp) Dan the Republicans (Lr)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unprecedented public attention to political events, as well as media attention to the experience and the dramatic picture of the arrival of refugees in the EU on the media put a heavy burden on EU institutions. The EU issued policies to resolve the dilemma of the Syrian refugee crisis [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politics of Syrian Refugee Public Policy 2015 - 2016: A Study of the Influence of the French National Party on European Parliament Member Votes

Cindra¹,

Juwono²

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Administrative Science, Policy, and Governance Studies, I

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“…Stjerno (2015: 13) claims that, within the EU, the concept of solidarity is an ideological hybrid that is stretched and strained to meet the demands of different political situations. It is used instrumentally for political purposes but has neither been clearly defined nor realized in practice within the European Union (Grimmel, 2017).…”

Section: Solidarity In Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Affective and calculative solidarity: The impact of individualism and neoliberal capitalism

Lynch

Kalaitzake

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article examines the ways in which the self-responsibilized individualism underpinning contemporary concepts of the ideal European citizen, on the one hand (Frericks, 2014), and the inequalities and anti-democratic politics that characterize contemporary neoliberal capitalism, on the other, are co-constituent elements in creating an antipathy to forms of solidarity that are affective as opposed to calculative. The active citizenship framework lacks a full appreciation of the interdependency of the human condition and is antithetical to universalistic, affectively-led forms of solidarity. The deep relationality that is endemic to both social production and reproduction, and that impels an affective, morally-led form of solidarity needs to be recognized academically and intellectually, and politically sustained, if we are to move beyond a narrow, calculative, self-interested vision of solidarity in Europe.

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“…Solidarity in the EU has been studied on many levels, focusing on its conceptual development (Banting and Kymlicka 2017 ; Habermas 2013 ; Sangiovanni 2013 ) or emphasizing the practice of solidarity (Grimmel 2017 ; Rothstein 2017 ). Many studies state a crisis of European solidarity (Delanty 2008 ; Habermas 2013 ), yet without explaining how the quantity of solidarity has been measured or which period it is being compared with.…”

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Measuring solidarity: towards a survey question on fiscal solidarity in the European Union

Holesch

2021

Acta Polit

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Comparing solidarity attitudes between EU citizens is significant in the context of European integration, since solidarity—or rather the lack thereof—has been used in public debates and recent studies as an explanation for a variety of crises. In these academic studies, the measurement of solidarity and its conceptualization strongly differ and that prevents us from evaluating the long-term existence of solidarity in the EU or its effectiveness. This article intends to narrow this gap by starting a theoretical discussion on a possible standardized question on fiscal solidarity in the EU. To do so, it examines existing questions and borrows from the research on social trust and survey methodology. Then, it proposes a new fiscal solidarity question, of which its reliability and validity is assessed via the Survey Quality Predictor, a computer program to evaluate survey questions. This article argues that the new fiscal solidarity question should mention the term solidarity and include the solidarity practice defined as permanent financial help. Once established, a standard solidarity question will strengthen the comparability of solidarity in continued social science research.

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Solidarity in the European Union: Fundamental Value or “Empty Signifier”

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Politics of Syrian Refugee Public Policy 2015 - 2016: A Study of the Influence of the French National Party on European Parliament Member Votes

Politics of Syrian Refugee Public Policy 2015 - 2016: A Study of the Influence of the French National Party on European Parliament Member Votes

Affective and calculative solidarity: The impact of individualism and neoliberal capitalism

Measuring solidarity: towards a survey question on fiscal solidarity in the European Union

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