Transnational solidarity: a transformative narrative for the EU and its citizens?

摘要: Empirical studies provide increasingly powerful evidence of solidarity in Europe, although attitudes and practices vary across States policies, are often conditional face problems durability. Solidarity is strongest national or local settings typically manifests political activity, especially relation to countering social inequalities. This article focuses on the implications these findings for EU, a transnational community seemingly disconnected from its citizens now discussing future orientation. It argued that ‘soft’ power needs nurturing EU enhance relevance, legitimacy resilience. Member State institutional design have hitherto proved weak delivering meaningful measures elaborating European citizenship beyond market-related paradigms. Any sustainable transformative step requires refocusing upon ‘horizontal’ among borders reboot articulate ‘social integration’. necessitates reframing relationship between legal narratives. The paradigm has favoured top-down notions rights-based over as principle standard. develops notion by connecting factual potency felt underpinning strategies resilient governance framework capture it.