DI AGUSTÍN JOSÉ MENÉNDEZ

CONTENTS: Introduction – 1. From social practices to legal institutions: what is there in a name – 1.1. Solidaristic practices: Mutual aid in action – 1.2. Institutionalisation: from solidaristic practices to the Democratic and Social State – 1.3. The ambivalence of institutionalisation: in particular, of inverted solidarity – 1.4. Other challenges of the institutionalisation of solidaristic practices, in particular, solidarity in federal polities – 2. The deep ambivalence of European integration from the standpoint of solidarity – 2.1. The founding ambivalence of the European Communities – 2.2. The Maastricht decisive moment: the “constitutional” pre-emption of solidarity – 2.3. The fiscal crises: breaching the Treaties, doubling down on the radical separation of national exchequers, and pushing solidaristic institutions to the breaking point – 3. A solidaristic infection? The Euro-corona syndemic or the existential crisis redux – 3.1. The covid-19 syndemic: The policy response – 3.1.1. Suspending Fiscal Rules – 3.1.2. De facto suspending state aid rules – 3.1.3. Expanding the acquisition of public bonds and launching a specific pandemic QE: The ECB as the unconditional lender of last resort to Member States – 3.1.4. Common expenditure through jointly issued public debt? – 3.2. A more solidaristic EU? Between the inklings of a federal solidum and austerity business as usual – Conclusions: Back to a solidaristic EU?

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