A new original contract? Towards a transnational model of solidarity for Europe
Abstract
The transnational practices of European citizens challenge our concept of space as reference for social solidarity and political identity. Nevertheless, European institutions do only insufficiently assume these practices, as they still rely on the paradigm of the national social welfare state. Therefore, we miss the big potential of this new phenomenon to reason social solidarity beyond the nation state and therefore rescue the European Union from its legitimacy crisis. In line with Karl Deutsch, we should interpret European transnationalism as a process of social learning which leads us to a future supra-national identity. But this process needs to be backed by a model of state which is rooted in a concept of multicultural solidarity, expressing an original social contract between different European nations. This means that we have to pay more attention to new studies which question the incompatibility between cultural diversity and social solidarity.
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