Open AccessEurope United in Diversity—An Analogical Hermeneutics Perspective
Author(s) -
Pablo Cristóbal Jiménez Lobeira
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of european studies/australian and new zealand journal of european studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-2147
pISSN - 1836-1803
DOI - 10.30722/anzjes.vol13.iss1.15480
Subject(s) - european union , diversity (politics) , politics , political science , immigration , political economy , perspective (graphical) , european integration , brexit , interculturalism , public sphere , state (computer science) , economic system , sociology , economics , law , international trade , multiculturalism , algorithm , artificial intelligence , computer science
At a moment when a new crisis threatens Europe—a crisis including, among other factors, COVID-19, a faltering economy, immigration and Brexit—the European Union (EU) motto of ‘Europe united in diversity’ would appear progressively less attainable. This paper submits that the European ideal is still both desirable and possible through fostering of political unity at the constitutional (regime) level by using the notions of analogical state and analogical culture, and at the community level by enabling public sphere secularity and relational interculturalism. These concepts envisage the EU in a more flexible manner, in favour of policies enabling further European integration.