A Lifeline for European Solidarity

Private Wealth and European Solidarity

The final issue concerns European solidarity.

European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People

The European Union supports the initiative of a voluntary solidarity tax on air tickets.

Some friends of Greece will decide to show active, though peaceful, solidarity with their European compatriots.

The European Commission s proposal is intended to underscore European solidarity and burden sharing both core EU principles. But the plan s limited scope undermines this impression.

The most important consequence, I fear, is the weakening of European solidarity. The euro was supposed to strengthen it.

But is preserving the one size fits all euro really worth sacrificing the eurozone s competitiveness and, ultimately, European solidarity?

What exactly would a federal Europe entail? Is European solidarity a euphemism for the transfer union that Germany opposes, or for massive bailouts by the European Central Bank?

We must find a way to recapture the spirit of solidarity and shared values that once inspired the European imagination.

Hilde Teuwen, Oxfam Solidarity and European Coordination of Support for the Saharawi People (A C.4 60 5 Add.12)

Thus, negotiations on European financial transfers, the core of European solidarity, will be much tougher in the future than they were in the past (when they were already difficult enough).

The only way to reverse the trend is to recapture the spirit of solidarity that animated the European project from the start.

The narrative should address three essential questions. How can the European model of strong social solidarity and security be reformed, but endure?

The European Union has proved that it is possible to build structures and mechanisms of cooperation in a spirit of true solidarity.

But France and Germany can also block European responsibility for international order and for solidarity with a US facing possible defeat in Iraq.

Europe brought democratic values, social solidarity, and, for all its current problems, the century s most impressive feat of institutional engineering, the European Union.

Some friends of Greece will decide to show active, though peaceful, solidarity with their European compatriots. Others might follow the Greek example and go into the streets, not out of solidarity but out of frustration with conditions in their home country.

Political solidarity must be underpinned by effective financial solidarity.

Countries that benefited most from European solidarity over the past twenty years are thus the least eager to share with their poor Eastern relations.

MANNHEIM The European Union s policy of saving the euro at all costs is enough to guarantee the euro s survival. But is preserving the one size fits all euro really worth sacrificing the eurozone s competitiveness and, ultimately, European solidarity?

They rediscover the path to solidarity, tolerance and a sense of solidarity.

The European Union would like to take this opportunity to express its condolences to and solidarity with all those affected by humanitarian emergencies in the last year.

As a result, mechanistic solidarity grows stronger at the expense of organic solidarity.

Sanctions and Solidarity

Strengthening intergenerational solidarity

Europe s Solidarity Imperative

Solidarity with Japan

Some showed solidarity

Labour Justice Solidarity

In Europe, bickering between leaders revealed the lack of solidarity underpinning European ideals and gave full view to the persistence of national egoisms against which the European project had managed to define itself since the end of World War II.

By calling upon citizens to finance their own countries national debts, southern Europe s leaders can fix their own economies and strengthen the European principles of solidarity and subsidiarity.

But was it really inevitable that so much solidarity had to escape our Solidarity?

The creation of a European banking union is another area in which misguided calls for solidarity prevail. Establishing a single supervisory authority and a resolution mechanism are valid proposals.

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.

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.

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).

From Solidarity to Freedom

Group for International Solidarity

Besides raising doubts about European leaders competence and solidarity, this crisis jeopardizes the EU s signal achievement, the single market, which ensures freedom of movement for goods, services, capital, and people.

Thus, the sheer magnitude of the task of reviving these economies is not overwhelming. But the political consequences of failure to deliver a message of genuine European solidarity will be.

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.

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.

Thus, the sheer magnitude of the task of reviving these economies is not overwhelming. But the political consequences of failure to deliver a message of genuine European solidarity will be.