Review article
https://doi.org/10.20901/pp.10.2-3.01
European Citizenship and Constitutional Patriotism: Towards a More Solidary Europe
Luka Petrović
orcid.org/0000-0002-7191-5916
; Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic has once again put the issue of solidarity and economic redistribution within the European Union on the agenda. Unlike the discussions on the European debt crisis conducted after the World Economic Crisis of 2008, this time the crisis was produced by external factors, which blunted the strength of the arguments based on the alleged irresponsibility of certain countries. The author starts from the assumption that supranational association is necessary to remove the negative effects of economic globalization and rejects the sovereignist answers. The paper examines the notion of European citizenship, and how this concept can accelerate the creation of a more solidary order. The problem is especially the fact that “what is urgently needed to be done is also extremely unpopular and therefore democratically virtually impossible to do” (Offe, 2013). Solving the problem would include broad economic redistribution, mutualization of debts, and even the creation of a single fiscal system within the European Union. The author specifically examines the form of citizenship based on the concept of constitutional patriotism (Habermas, 2006, Muller, 2010). One of its elements, the shared memory of post-war aid to the German economy (Young, 2020), this time can be used as a motivation for similar solidarity policies.
Keywords
crisis; solidarity; European Union; constitutional patriotism; citizenship
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258756
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Publication date:
13.5.2021.
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