The revival of the European integration project requires a political and cultural struggle with the neoliberal ideology. Interview Angelo Chiel   Cover Image

Relansarea proiectului de integrare europeană presupune o luptă politico-culturală cu ideologia neoliberală. Interviu cu Profesorul Angelo Chielli
The revival of the European integration project requires a political and cultural struggle with the neoliberal ideology. Interview Angelo Chiel

Author(s): Ioana Cristea Drăgulin, Sorin Bocancea
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: migration; neoliberalism; solidarity; foreign; European Union.

Summary/Abstract: The conflicts within the European Union have always been and will always be purely political. The concentration of power in the hands of independent and supranational authorities leads to their removal from the control of the political institutions and democratic procedures. A revival of the European integration project could be based on a tough politico-cultural fight in a position to undermine the neoliberal ideology. Restarting the process of European integration cannot be the fruit of a ghostly economic recovery or stabilization of the balance states, but only as a result of a change in perspectives and objectives. To further be a viable project, the European Union needs some changes. Politically, it must be a question of political conflict recovery, reunification of alternative forces and proposing a different idea of Europe compared with that of the markets, specific to the neoliberalism. In the ideal contents plan, the concept of solidarity needs to be re-proposed, as a legal principle that allows the establishment of links outside those of family or community type. In this respect,

  • Issue Year: III/2015
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 55-67
  • Page Count: 13