This text will address three questions. Firstly, what roles has the appeal to solidarity been playing in process of European integration? Secondly, does normative sense an obligation really mean? Thirdly, extent can we and should rely on appeals as fight for a better Europe?

I. General observation The Green Paper contains considerations with regard to the future Common European Asylum System. These considerations are mainly couched in questions which are commented on under II. However, this Green Paper also contains, in part, concrete objectives relating, for instance, to a higher common standard of protection and a higher degree of solidarity between EU Member Sta...

Communication increases contributions to public goods. Our experimental results indicate that communication is not always required. Silent identification suffices to raise solidarity in prisoner's dilemma and dictator games. Increases in solidarity are not only due to expectations of reciprocity. While mutual identification induces individuals to converge to the social norm, the spread of the d...

Concerns about the impact of immigration (‘diversity’) on welfare states (‘solidarity’) are widespread among political economists. This article presents an alternative theoretical framework for understanding their relationship. Using social and cultural theory, I argue that it is tautological to suggest diversity solidarity covary; both emerge out same ideological material efforts construct ‘in...