1 Who Decides Europe’s Values?

1 Who Decides Europe’s Values?
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difficult to establish a consensus on moral norms.
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Culture Wars

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family life, the role of religion, sexuality, marriage, the end of life, and abortion
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little consensus

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role of religion, particularly Christianity
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Islam;
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multiculturalism;

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national sentiment.

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national sovereignty

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transnational outlook
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variety of recently enacted Hungarian laws violated the values of the EU.
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the independence of the national central bank, the retirement age of judges, and the independence of the data protection
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different visions of values.
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a challenge to the secular, democratic, and liberal values of the EU.
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national and Christian traditions
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his government ‘took place on the basis of European values and principles
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European values, there was a fundamental difference in the way they were interpreted.
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Verhofstadt demanded that the EU’s Committee on Civil Rights,
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His use of the term ‘our values’

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EU’s highly acclaimed celebration of the principle of diversity
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diversity of values
Note:IL VALORE PIÙ TRASCURATO

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Daniel Cohn-Bendit

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you are going in the direction of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro,
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declare that his values were no less European than those of his detractors.
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Robert Schuman,
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‘there will either be a Christian democracy in Europe or there will be no democracy at all’.
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Europe is its culture’,
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Orbán’s affirmation of traditional Christian values

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violated the spirit of the modern values of pluralism and diversity.
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the freedom of religion, the freedom of expression, equality
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Christianity was entirely alien to the values of the EU.
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Marie-Christine Vergiat,
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the outlook of the secular liberal and leftist post-war tradition.
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no doubt about the foundational role of Christianity for this project.
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Even Jacques Delors,
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Lisbon Treaty
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whatever the EU meant, it was not a community of shared values.
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‘although there were some fireworks, they mostly came from MEPs on the ideological left and not from Orbán himself,
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The rhetoric of alarm

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positive orientation towards religious or national traditions was likely to be perceived as out of step
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Hungary under its Fidesz government has become a tiresome member
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the terms ‘nationalist’ and ‘populist’ represent maladies that afflict public life.
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The Culture Wars in perspective
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nationalist’ and ‘populist’
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nationalism is the natural companion of xenophobia.
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EU political class justifies its anti-nationalist rhetoric by pointing to the dangers of racist xenophobic
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EU regards the principle of national sovereignty as the driver of Euroscepticism
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Herman van Rompuy,

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‘Euroscepticism leads to war’,
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such an outlook inevitably encouraged the revival of the aggressive nationalism
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based on insulating decision-makers from direct public pressure
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the populist revolt against the unaccountability of the elites’.

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RIVOLTA CONTRO IL RAZIONALISMO LIBERALE ELITISTA

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any criticism of substance directed at the EU is automatically dismissed as a threat to the stability
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A serious critic of the EU courted condemnation for being, by definition, a right-wing extremist.
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to criticize the EU
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rhetoric of condemnation

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anti-nationalist and anti-populist values was a non-negotiable part of the deal.
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they were ‘expected to forge enduring partnerships and avoid alliances with extremists, Euro-sceptics,
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Domestic debates on the values that would define Hungarian society
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The ‘Copenhagen Criteria’ outlined procedures that candidate countries to the EU
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the willingness of the candidate state to accept and promote European values.
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vague and abstract reference to ‘democratic values’
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acceptance of EU conditionality was characterized as a triumph for liberal values.
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the right to choose between alternatives.
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the population was informed that the policies and values adopted to meet the Copenhagen criteria were not so much good but necessary.
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little opportunity for the people of East Europe to express reservation
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From the turn of the twenty-first century
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Weak normative power of the EU
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Hungary, and for that matter Poland, are beyond the pale.
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it represents an existential threat to the EU.
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a threat to its integrity.

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regularly exhorts the EU to punish Hungary
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use an ethnocentric language that condemns not merely these nations’ governments but also their people.
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on the wrong side of the Culture War.
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racism, ignorance, bigotry’.

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has recognized that what is at stake is a conflict over values;
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more comfortable with promoting an economic justification for their cause than in attempting to win support for an explicit system of shared values.
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avoid an explicit engagement with the domain of values.
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European transnational institutions were also the progeny of the Cold War.
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advocates of the European project realized that reliance on economics alone was not enough
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The economic crisis of 1973
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try to supplement its economic authority with a series of cultural initiatives.
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something else was needed

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limits of economics for maintaining and developing the political unity
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New Narrative for Europe,
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the end of the Cold War
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the practice of technocratic governance needed to be supplemented by a political narrative
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‘implicit consent’ had to be replaced by a more explicit engagement with public life.
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to inspire people to adopt a more explicit identification with the EU.
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rebranding the EU through a ‘new narrative’.
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Rendering values explicit
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The problem with the Hungarian government was not so much its advocacy of traditional values
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Why were Europe’s shared values hidden by political leaders committed to the cause of European unification?
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European unification was entwined with the aspiration to break away from the legacy of the past
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attitude that regarded the values and traditions of the past with suspicion.
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founders of the EU looked to expert and technocratic
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Traditional values were not so much explicitly rejected as evaded and depoliticized.
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One of the accomplishments of the 1960s cultural revolution was to provide an explicit narrative for the devaluation of traditional
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Eric Hobsbawm wrote of a ‘cultural revolution’,

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‘what children could learn from parents
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parents did not know and children did’.
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1968 destroyed more values than did the Third Reich’.
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exiling the past and its traditions
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In academic literature, morally framed arguments tend to be treated with contempt and scorn.

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ACCUSA DI MORALISMO

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‘moral’ is deployed to signify that a particular phenomenon should not be taken seriously.
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moral are perceived by policy makers as divisive
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Debates about values often acquire an acrimonious character.
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Hungary had placed the question of values back on the political agenda.
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‘There is something that I call a hidden or a secret Europe’,
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debate over cultural and political correctness
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The problem of the past
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internationally respected norms of human rights’
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Transnational constitutionalism presents itself as a value-neutral expression of the rule of law.
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ideologically neutral’.

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the text of the constitution tries to connect the neutral state institutions with society’s cultural-moral order,
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The very fact that in its debate of Hungary, the European Parliament raised the question of whether or not the Constitution violated the EU’s values was an implicit recognition of the fact that it was far from value-neutral.
L IMPOSSIBILE NEUTRALISMO