The Crisis of the European Union

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The Crisis of the
European Union
Identity, Citizenship, and Solidarity Reassessed
"European citizens in general look at the EU as a 'black box'. It is not at all clear to them how
the European Union works. Therefore, they do not consider themselves as real European
citizens. In general, information is asked for, if it fits their direct needs. And in certain
circumstances when the recipients are very much involved they even would like to be part of
the decision making process. The European public - the citizens - generally feel themselves
not adequately informed in EU matters."
(Hendrik-Jan Rebel)
"The current economic and financial crisis has unsurprisingly opened a passionate debate
not only on different formula to exit the crisis but on the functioning of the European Monetary
Union, widely criticized for its original bad design, for incompleteness of economic policy
framework or for the unclear role of the European institutions involved there."
(Gabriela Dragan)... Tovább

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The Crisis of the
European Union
Identity, Citizenship, and Solidarity Reassessed
"European citizens in general look at the EU as a 'black box'. It is not at all clear to them how
the European Union works. Therefore, they do not consider themselves as real European
citizens. In general, information is asked for, if it fits their direct needs. And in certain
circumstances when the recipients are very much involved they even would like to be part of
the decision making process. The European public - the citizens - generally feel themselves
not adequately informed in EU matters."
(Hendrik-Jan Rebel)
"The current economic and financial crisis has unsurprisingly opened a passionate debate
not only on different formula to exit the crisis but on the functioning of the European Monetary
Union, widely criticized for its original bad design, for incompleteness of economic policy
framework or for the unclear role of the European institutions involved there."
(Gabriela Dragan)
"European citizenship brings a completely new meaning to the idea of citizenship, introducing
none other than a concept of non-national or maybe even a post-national citizenship. In fact,
the new use of the concept of citizenship, while indicating the specific relation of EU
individuals to the European Union, has very little in common with the traditional meaning of
this word, which normally seems to stress obligations more than rights and demands certain
civic virtues as well as loyalty to the state."
(Jozef Niznik)
"The economic crisis emphasised differences and discrepancies like never before. After
2007, and especially after the crisis in Greece, which began in early 2010, cohesion has
been among the first European objectives to be "sacrificed" in favour of survival measures.
The lines of fraction are actually more numerous and in more than one area - economic,
social, and ideological. We can talk about a Europe divided between eurozone vs. non-
eurozone countries; the wealthy vs. the poor (states, social groups), and about an ideological
division on austerity measures."
(Alina Bargaoanu and Flavia Durach) Vissza