Public Lecture ‘Solidarity: A European Value?’

I gave a keynote lecture on solidarity’s importance (or sometimes lack thereof) in the process of European integration. In the talk I develop a philosophical account of solidarity and ask what it implies for European integration. My suggestion is that solidarity's distinctive value lies in its ability to align self-oriented projects with moral responsibilities. For a project like the EU, this means that it can only live up to its founding ideals if member states treat each other’s problems as genuinely shared predicaments. This is the text of the talk.