Is the European project in danger?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.60054/PEU.2025.12.132-140Keywords:
Common values, European Construction, Trust, European Solidarity, The survival of European constructionAbstract
Can the simple questioning of all the premises that formed the basis of the creation of the European Union (peace, stability, prosperity and solidarity) endanger the contemporary European construction itself?
This paper seeks through exploratory research of the historiography of crises, to demonstrate that the immediate effects of recent and current crises (instability, lack of solidarity, mistrust or fear), deeply affect precisely the identity foundations of the European construction: well-being, mercy and Christian empathy, trust in institutions and peace. By means of causal demonstration, the text highlights the immediate psychological mass effects after each crisis, then seeking to highlight the connection between these effects and the objectives and values of the EU that they affect, undermine, threaten. The final purpose of the paper lies in the answer to the research question announced, namely in an initial assessment of the extent to which the period of recent European history and its crises affect the European project itself by questioning its identity elements.
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