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Eduardo Gill-Pedro

Associate senior lecturer

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Solidarity Through the Lens of Functional Constitutionalism

Author

  • Eduardo Gill-Pedro

Summary, in English

This article investigates solidarity as a concept and/or a norm of EU law from the perspective of functional constitutionalism. It asks how solidarity fits within the normative framework of the EU legal order if we understand this framework as being founded on a functional constitution.Under functional constitutionalism, the EU is understood as a purposive polity and the authority of the legal order is justified, not by reference to popular sovereignty and individual rights, but from the functional requirements ordained by the purposes, or objectives, of that polity. From this perspective, the normative value of solidarity in EU law is contingent on effectiveness. Where the effective achievement of EU objectives requires Member States to act in solidarity to each other, or to exercise transnational solidarity towards citizens of other Member States, then EU law will impose a duty on them to do so. Conversely, if the exercise of national solidarity within the Member State undermines the effective achievement of EU objectives, then EU law will impose a duty on those Member States not to allow such exercise. The article concludes that, through the lens of functional constitutionalism, solidarity has a purely instrumental value within the EU normative order

Department/s

  • Department of Law

Publishing year

2023-09-07

Language

English

Pages

113-113

Publication/Series

Nordic Journal of European Law

Volume

6

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Solidarity
  • European Union
  • Constitutionalism
  • Law
  • Legal theory
  • EU-rätt
  • Konstitutionell rätt

Status

Published

Project

  • The Company as a European Supercitizen? The protection of the human rights of corporate persons in European law.

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2003-1785