Thread by @tepsaeu

While we're on a break from the #InDivEU Final Conference, let's return to our upcoming book "European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals"

Yesterday we heard the 🇸🇰 perspective, today we're teaming up with @oegfe for the continuation
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We're broadcasting LIVE on Facebook, so go follow along there!

👉 facebook.com/tepsa.eu/video…

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"I see an overall danger. We have so many influences from outside: Russia, the USA, capital, and many more who invest so much in splitting society [...] No society can work if you have such divides"

- @Evelyn_Regner MEP on the dangers posed to Europe in 2021

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"There are many examples of 🇩🇰 keeping EU integration at arm's length. But the Danes are among the strongest supporters of the EU, they just don't expect that there should be a strong European #solidarity"

- @CatSorensen from @thinkeuropa

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The story of Danish #solidarity surrounding #Brexit is an interesting one: before Brexit, Denmark and the UK shared a passion for opt-outs, but now Denmark stands firmly behind the EU27's approach to Brexit

- @CatSorensen from @thinkeuropa

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Where does the 🇨🇿 attitude to #solidarity as paternalistic come from, and is it changing? "@CatSorensen's remarks about the Danish approach reminds of the Czech attitude, but #COVID19 and #ClimateChange show we must move beyond the Nation State"
- Petr Kratochvíl, @IIR_Prague
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"This idea of #solidarity is not stigmatised in Spain. In fact it was used by BOTH the left and the right. Now though, this is changing: for the first time, we have a political party with 15% support who reject solidarity"

- @_ignaciomolina (@rielcano)

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We're enjoying a great 🔴LIVE discussion on EU #solidarity with @oegfe 👉 facebook.com/tepsa.eu/video…

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"The narrative is typically that it is 🇨🇿 against the world, but as we learn from compiling views from the capitals, we realise it isn't 'us and them'. This is certainly a step in the right direction"

- Petr Kratochvíl (@IIR_Prague)

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"Solidarity among Member States and solidarity among peoples is different: if there is a new wave of the pandemic in a different EU country, then we are concerned! Not out of 'quid pro quo', but because there is a normative #solidarity in the EU"
- @_ignaciomolina (@rielcano)
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"The concept of 'Member States' is under pressure: judicial systems, journalism, pillars of society, are attacked. We don't only have to debate the EU as such, it's going far far deeper, and the EU is the solution: there are structures in place"

- @Evelyn_Regner MEP

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"In order to be sovereign, we need the European Union to be as strong as possible. Then, it's easier to act in #solidarity"

- @Evelyn_Regner MEP

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On that note our moderator @_PaulSchmidt concludes the panel: "let's have a lot more talk, but more importantly, let's have a lot more action!"

Thanks to @oegfe for co-organising this great debate with us, and stay tuned for the highlights!

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