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#EuropeChats Episode 8⃣ is about to premiere on @YouTube! 📺

This episode we're joined by @MichaelKaeding, co-editor of "European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals"

Together with @_PaulSchmidt and @JohannesPollak, Michael has co-edited the book, which analyses 41 European countries from the perspective of European #solidarity - but the main question is: "does European solidarity actually exist?"

"On the one hand you have Ireland being showered with #solidarity during the #Brexit negotiations; on the other hand you have Poland which sees European solidarity as a one-way street"

- @MichaelKaeding from @unidue

Michael is joined in this interview by TEPSA Secretary-General @CloosJim - he spent years in the @EUCouncil, so from his experience: "do the Member States realise the importance of European #solidarity"

"I think #solidarity is well understood in the @EUCouncil generally, because Member States understand the 'give and take' of the EU. But this isn't to say that countries have become altruistic bodies"

- @CloosJim on #solidarity in the European Council

"In these 41 chapters you will see very different views: there is one notion of the 'Baltic Bubble' whereby the Baltic states 🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪 kept their internal borders open at the start of the #COVID19 pandemic"

- @MichaelKaeding on the #BalticBubble

But what prevents the Member States from showing #solidarity to each other? "Such examples often reflect a certain moment in time. [...] If you look back over a longer period than the last two years of #COVID then the picture is quite different" @CloosJim

But how does #solidarity affect #migration policy? After all, the Southern states are mostly bearing the brunt of mass migration: "We need to help countries of transit and of origin. But we also need to deal with what happens when this fails?" @CloosJim

"The chapters of Cyprus and Malta describe the islands as willing to help, but then bearing the brunt of the #RefugeeCrisis. The willingness of Malta to help led to a low-point in #solidarity"

- @MichaelKaeding

"We can't solve all these problems ourselves nationally. So acting on #solidarity requires that we know more about each other. European solidarity requires a form of European identity"

- @MichaelKaeding on the need for a common identity in the EU

"I do believe, looking at it more positively, that in various crises Europe has shown more resilience and interdependence"

- @CloosJim with a positive note on how the EU deals with crises through #solidarity

"If you read the Lithuanian chapter, it underlines the need to support democratisation processes in the Eastern Neighbourhood. This is just one of many examples throughout the book"

- @MichaelKaeding on external #solidarity



@VU_LT

"It is important to understand each other, and also to have the willingness to understand each other. That is really the message of the book"

- @MichaelKaeding concludes this episode of #EuropeChats

In this #EuropeChats we discuss a number of chapters in "European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals", including:
🇮🇪 @BrigidLaffan from @EUI_EU
🇵🇱 Zdzislaw Mach from @JagiellonskiUni
🇱🇺 Guido Lessing from @uni_lu

Other chapters of the book discussed in this episode:
🇸🇪 Gunilla Herolf from @UISweden
🇨🇾 @GiorgosKentas from @Uni_of_Nicosia
🇲🇹 Mark Harwood from @umeuropean
🇦🇹 @_PaulSchmidt & @katrinauel from @oegfe
🇬🇧 @Brendandonn from @FedTrust

In this episode we ask: how much capacity and willingness do EU members have to provide solidarity to neighbours who are not members? What about candidate countries?
🇲🇰 Irena Pandeva/Sasho Georgievski (@UKIMedumk)
🇦🇱 @LeonieVrugtman/@alrakaj (@IDM_Albania)

On the list for non-members who still figure into European solidarity are also:
🇹🇷 Senem Aydin Duzgit and Ozgehan Senyuva from @METU_ODTU and @sabanciu
🇲🇪 Daniela Jacimovic and Nicola Milovic from @Univerzitet_CG
🇷🇸 Marko Savković from @BFPE_BFPI

We also explore the EU solidarity with neighbours who are not Member States but are part of the European Neighbourhood Policy, such as Eastern Partnership Countries like:
🇬🇪 @ElePanchulidze from @PMCGofficial
🇺🇦 Mykhailo Pashkov from @PA3yMKOB

This episode of #EuropeChats focusses on "European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals", in which we have over 4⃣0⃣ chapters 💪

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇧🇪 @VanHeckeSteven, @BrittVandeWalle, Geert Bouckaert, and @PattynValerie from @KU_Leuven
🇧🇬 Hristo Panchugov and Ivan Nachev from @NBUSofia
🇭🇷 Hrvoje Butkovic from @irmo_hr

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇨🇿 Petr Kratochvil and Zdeněk Sychra from @IIR_Prague
🇩🇰 @CatSorensen from @DIIS_dk
🇪🇪 Viljar Veebel from @Estonian_EVI
🇫🇮 @JuhaJokela1 from @FIIA_fi

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇫🇷 Olivier Rozenberg and @ChristianLeque3 from @SciencesPo_CEE
🇩🇪 @Boettger_IEP, @FundaTekin17, and Friederike Augustin from @IEP_Berlin
🇬🇷 Eugenia Kopsidi from @eplo_news

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇭🇺 András Inotai, Norbert Szijártó, and Andrea Éltető from IWE CERS
🇮🇹 @NicolePirozzi and @Poli_Eleonora from @IAIonline
🇱🇻 @Al_Palkova and @KarlisBukovskis from @LIIA_LV

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇱🇹 Ramūnas Vilpišauskas from @VU_LT
🇵🇹 Alice Cunha from @iprinova
🇷🇴 @BiaTom and Alexandru Damian from @CRPERomania
🇸🇰 Lucia Mokra and Andrea Figulova from @ComeniusUni

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇸🇮 Maja Bučar and Boštjan Udovič from @FDVLjubljana
🇪🇸 @_ignaciomolina from @rielcano
🇳🇱 Jaap de Zwaan, fmr. TEPSA Secretary-General
🇧🇦 @vedrandzihic from @InfoOiip
🇮🇸 @BaldurThorhalls from @AMS_IIA

Beyond the chapters mentioned in this episode we have:
🇽🇰 @donikaemini from @CiviKosPlatform
🇱🇮 Christian Frommelt from @LieInstitut
🇳🇴 @Prieker1 and @Usverdrup from @nupinytt
🇨🇭 Frank Schimmelfennig from @CIS_ETH_UZH