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At the heart of the matter is a conflict between the individual member states’ national interests – the competitiveness of European defense-related companies and the strategic importance of defense markets when linked to national foreign policy – and the Lisbon treaty, which refers specifically to enhanced solidarity and consultation.
If the Lisbon treaty is to be respected, solidarity must be viewed as a political tool for moving towards a European defense policy that works for the common good.
This means that cooperation with non-EU countries should not be to the detriment of solidarity and common rules within the EU.
The North Atlantic Council would seem an obvious forum within which to enhance solidarity among members, reassure member states that have perceptions of greater vulnerability, and avoid misperceptions.
Are ordinary Russians showing solidarity with a victim unjustly hounded by the British Crown Prosecution Service?
Rostowski’s point is that European countries demonstrated throughout the euro crisis that they had very little appetite for solidarity, even with their partners in the monetary union.
Clearly, the series of events following the financial meltdown in 2008 can be viewed as a crisis of solidarity.
In short, each time the question of European solidarity was raised, the answer was: “Yes, but only if absolutely necessary, and only to the minimum possible extent.”
A key dimension of the current standoff over Ukraine is energy, and it raises the same question about European solidarity.
But this sense of solidarity has been consistently lacking in the EU’s energy-policy debate.
The underlying question is whether it is right to assume that the euro should have created more solidarity.
Sharing a currency was expected to create a sense of common destiny, and hence solidarity, among the participants.
Though there clearly is a link between currency areas and political communities (consider the dissolution of the ruble zone at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse), it is political community that creates the solidarity needed to foster currency linkages, not vice versa.
In the end, however, the right question may be whether the Crimea crisis will eventually bolster European solidarity – and thus the euro.
In a show of official solidarity, the lights also went out at many of the planet’s most iconic landmarks, from the Opera House in Sydney to the Great Pyramid at Giza, not to mention Beijing’s Forbidden City, New York’s Empire State Building, London’s Big Ben, Paris’s Eiffel Tower, and the skylines of both Hong Kong and Las Vegas.
Thus, they must be guaranteed the kind of solidarity that is fundamental to EU membership.
Eurobonds and a solidarity fund could promote growth and stabilize the interest rates faced by governments in crisis.
Whereas only a few hundred showed up to support the fraudulently elected Mubarak during the revolution, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians rallied for two consecutive weeks in Rab‘a al-‘Adawiyya square, near the presidential palace, to express their solidarity with Morsi.
For example, the German government has been accused of shunning European solidarity in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
In two key areas – addressing the refugee crisis and confronting Russian aggression – her government has shown more European solidarity than most other member states.
How can the European model of strong social solidarity and security be reformed, but endure?
Social solidarity, essential to European identity, can and must include longer work lives, but also more work-sharing, adult learning, and shorter average work weeks (particularly close to retirement).
The results of this "competitive solidarity" are huge.
The strong bonds (kizuna) of the Japanese people create great solidarity during dark times such as these.
If European solidarity is to survive its latest challenge, a new narrative is urgently needed.
NATO Must Be SavedWhoever thought that NATO - that most successful expression of transatlantic solidarity - had found new cohesion after the divisive Iraq crisis should visit the alliance's headquarters.
Thus a strengthened EU energy solidarity is vital, with every country in Europe helping via binding “solidarity clauses” to guarantee the energy supplies of others in an emergency – whether that emergency is deliberate or accidental.
When Germany recently requested a quota system to cope with the massive influx of refugees, however, its partners showed no such solidarity.
Freedom and independence, to which we tried to point the way, are not accompanied by a sense of solidarity, especially towards those who are weaker and poorer.
That is what the demonstration of solidarity in the face of last month's terrorist attacks in Paris was surely all about.
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