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It is often argued that Continental Europe's social and economic model, which seeks to combine competitiveness with solidarity, is the glue that binds the European Union together, as well as distinguishing Europe from the American (or Anglo-Saxon) free-market model.
Having spent a decade dismantling the debris of state socialism, most of these countries chafe at the idea of importing the European social market's idea of solidarity via the EU.
Countries that benefited most from European solidarity over the past twenty years are thus the least eager to share with their poor Eastern relations.
Its reform - or, rather, its re-invention - implies redefining what solidarity means, within both the member states and the EU as a whole.
But for reform to succeed, a little old-fashioned solidarity extended Eastwards now is the best way to ensure the commitment of the EU's newest members to European integration.
Decisive progress on this path cannot be made without an increased awareness that all of us are part of one human family, united by bonds of fraternity and solidarity.
Only by thinking and acting with constant concern for this underlying unity that overrides all differences, only by cultivating a sense of universal intergenerational solidarity, can we set out really and resolutely on the road ahead.”
That postcommunist Boris Yeltsin, however, although he sometimes declared allegiance to a hazy collective sense of Rossiyane (citizens of Russia), deprived – or freed, it’s a matter of opinion – Russians of all collective life; both the real life of shared hardship and the imaginary half-life of communist solidarity.
Thus, indirectly, the budget has enabled leveraging of financing in order to support crisis countries – an expression of European solidarity that has gone fully unnoticed.
After all, when Liu was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010, and an infuriated China attempted to ostracize Norway, the West did not express outrage or display real solidarity with a NATO ally.
The euro is an important collective step forward, but to insure its credibility as a truly common currency, it should be treated as the embodiment of a true and whole-hearted solidarity.
For without a common political identity on which to base social solidarity, redistribution of wealth by the welfare state loses its legitimacy.
The alternative is to embrace a “transfer union” that ensures a better balance between solidarity and responsibility.
What makes Greece’s problems more difficult to address is the structure of the eurozone: monetary union implies that member states cannot devalue their way out of trouble, yet the modicum of European solidarity that must accompany this loss of policy flexibility simply is not there.
Incredibly, the actions of the richest countries – which promised solidarity with the world’s poorest people at the G-8 Summit in July – have intensified the hunger crisis.
In dangerous times such as these, the world's peoples need to prove their solidarity.
But solidarity also must be recognized within the real power structures of the UN.
But just as the time is coming when the US will to come see the UN as indispensable, the Security Council and its members will come to see the creation of new bodies within the UN not as rivals, but as the only means for the world's people, in solidarity, to confront the myriad social and economic problems that they face.
Inspired by this solidarity, and connected through international networks like Metropolis, C40 Cities, and 100 Resilient Cities, municipal leaders everywhere are forging partnerships to create united urban agendas.
The solidarity is welcome, but it will not be enough to alter the current trajectory.
Cooperation on matters related to the EU’s Economic and Monetary Union (discipline and solidarity) should be obligatory.
This is what distinguishes our proposal from suggestions that all eurozone debt be pooled in euro bonds in a spirit of solidarity.
A too-rapid inflow of immigrants weakens bonds of solidarity, and, in the long run, erodes the affective ties required to sustain the welfare state.
On the contrary, they want more solidarity from the EU, which would enable their governments to spend more.
The EU is thus caught between demands for more solidarity from the young in its southern members and dissatisfaction with open borders among the elderly in the north.
The gap between the EU’s rhetoric of solidarity and shared values and its real-world behavior must be closed.
While wealthy Germany does not want to extend a helping hand to southern EU countries, newly sovereign post-communist countries are rejecting refugees and refusing to show solidarity with Western Europe.
To avoid this pitfall, policymakers should consider the roots of the eurozone’s low growth potential, which is not a result of insufficient solidarity, but of individual member states abnegating their national responsibilities.
Superficially, this makes morally motivated wars easier: scenes of misery on TV incite visceral emotional reactions and feelings of solidarity.
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the EU’s weaker economies faced skyrocketing unemployment, especially among young people, while its stronger economies felt pressure to “show solidarity” by bailing out countries in distress.
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