What Does Solidarity Mean in Multi-National Contexts? The Case of the European Union
What Does Solidarity Mean in Multi-National Contexts? The Case of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to respond to the following questions: “what does solidarity mean in the language of EU law?” and what is the relationship between solidarity and diversity in EU law?” In order to respond to these questions I used the comparative argument, trying to compare the EU with Canada and Switzerland. Kymlicka and Banting (2004), among others, have analysed the tension between redistribution and heterogeneity in multicultural contexts in order to understand whether multicultural policies (MCs) exacerbate any underlying tension between diversity and social solidarity, further weakening the support for redistribution. My argument is that there is no trade-off between welfare policies (Ws) and MCs, rather, that it is possible to detect a kind of tension between them which generates asymmetry.

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