Solidarity and cohesion

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Series Details No.22, September 2014
Publication Date September 2014
ISSN 1783-2462
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In the past five years (2009-2014), the concept of solidarity has quietly lost much of its traction in the public discourse in Europe. Widely used at the time of the creation of the single market, the emergence of the common currency and during the EU's big bang enlargement of 2004-2007, it has recently become a more confused organising principle. The European system has been affected by growing levels of distrust, which has much to do with the way in which the euro zone crisis was tackled. In spite of massive resources having been mobilised to support countries in need, mutual accusations and discord have become ever more present in the EU's policy-making process.

This article forms part of an issue of Challenge Europe called 'Challenges and new beginnings: Priorities for the EU’s new leadership' as the launch of a new EU institutional cycle 2014-2019 began.

Source Link http://aei.pitt.edu/58259/
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ESO: Background information: EU solidarity abandoned on Mediterranean shores http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-solidarity-abandoned-on-mediterranean-shores/
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