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Record Nr.

UNINA9910978254003321

Autore

Labareda João

Titolo

Beyond Nationalism: Acting and Thinking for the Common Good in the European Union

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2024

ISBN

9781526169105

152616910X

Descrizione fisica

205 pages

Soggetti

European Union

European identity

EU policy

institutional reform

EU situation

nationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the meaning of the common good in a European Union thorned by nationalist tendencies and presents concrete policies to improve its achievement. It analyses the normative relevance of EU values as a shared moral standpoint that allows highly diverse member states to label a given collective choice as 'good' or 'bad'. It discusses the role of EU institutions as both guardians and enablers of EU values in a globalised world and introduces a few proposals for institutional reform at the EU level that could strengthen this role. It also presents six strategies to improve civic friendship in the EU, in the absence of which any institutional efforts to promote the common good may be undermined by the citizens' lack of willingness to share its burdens.