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So both countries would be prime candidates to support solidarity houses.
The initiative that I propose would offer a positive alternative, based on solidarity – the solidarity of Europeans with Greeks and of Greeks with migrants.
My goal is to revive the idea of the EU as an instrument of solidarity, not only of discipline.
We also propose creating a European grant fund to support public investment in the eurozone that advances common aims, strengthens solidarity, and promotes excellence.
Third, in a speech last June, outgoing US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revived the debate on transatlantic burden-sharing and solidarity within the alliance.
Just as the alliance demonstrated solidarity with West Germany during the Cold War, it must now do the same with its eastern allies.
Specifically, that means pursuing an economic policy that balances competitive markets and social solidarity, with substantial space for local diversity.
But much of what was said in and around the meetings reflected a deep lack of solidarity.
The very resources that form the basis of informal security systems – solidarity, social capital, and collective action, for example, can have perverse effects.
For example, forced solidarity will oblige any hard-working farmer in Benin who has accumulated some wealth over the years to share the fruit of his labor with his enlarged family, including distant relatives.
This is social solidarity that evolves along lines of kinship and religion, underpinned by a sense of belonging to the same “homogenous” group.
Durkheim contrasts this phenomenon with the more progressive “organic solidarity” that evolves in modern societies according to people’s professional and functional relationships.
As a result, “mechanistic solidarity” grows stronger at the expense of “organic solidarity.”
In culturally diverse societies, such as Iraq and Lebanon, networks of social solidarity are based almost entirely on religious and ethnic affinity.
In more homogenous societies, such as Libya, social solidarity tends to follow tribal and partisan lines.
In Tunisia, too, there has been a similar regression to mechanistic types of solidarity organized around tribal, regional, and religious identities.
A dramatic manifestation of the mechanistic pattern of solidarity is now emerging in Syria, as well.
Mechanistic solidarity has emerged as a more effective means to mobilize people and resources.
But what is urgently needed is a strong complementary focus on job creation to preserve and foster Durkheim’s organic solidarity.
True, new forms of poverty and unemployment are rising, but they remain well hidden behind family solidarity or corporate customs.
The best remedies for “undue” and potentially debilitating pessimism are practical: effective fact-based policymaking, shaped by scientific inquiry and social solidarity.
A “true” pan-European bond would have to entail a joint guarantee by all countries of the full bond issue, with the “strongest” guaranteeing the “weakest,” which supporters of a bond idea suggest constitutes true European solidarity.
Countries tempted to undermine these principles by failing to fulfill their solemn commitments only demonstrate their own lack of solidarity.
It also depends on the likely impact of an exit campaign on transnational solidarity.
In fact, despite the faux solidarity that US President Barack Obama expressed to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in early March, Israel’s saber-rattling appears to be galvanizing an American modus vivendi with Iran in order to avert an Israeli attack.
Indeed, the PiS, a party that claims to place national solidarity above all else – even the constitution – has brought about a situation in which only Poland is standing against a Pole.
The first is political and involves sovereignty: Full European solidarity can be achieved only through stronger fiscal and monetary federalism, which would enable the eurozone to act, despite minority dissent.
Mayors across Europe, however, have responded more moderately, feeling and showing solidarity with the plight of their French colleagues.
How does one reinforce a sense of solidarity and responsibility within a country?
The war in Iraq has not only caused NATO to lose focus in Afghanistan; it has also undermined solidarity of purpose among allies.
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