The article aims to analyse the project of a cosmopolitan Europe and to show the validity not of its rejection, but rather, of its betrayal. My argument is that Europe has both historical and normative characteristics of a cosmopolitan kind. At the same time, Europe is also moving ‒ due to the current economic-financial and immigration crisis ‒ towards a cosmopolitanism of a different nature, which I call ‘market cosmopolitanism', lacking any internal or external solidarity yet already embedded in the European Union constitutional project. In particular, I intend to develop the following three arguments: 1. that Europe can be considered a more specific historic space of potential affirmation of cosmopolitanism, resting on the principles and respect for the dignity of individuals and peoples; 2. that what I call the ‘normative cosmopolitan' project of Europe can be traced in the articles of the Constitutional Treaties and the Charter of the European fundamental rights; 3. finally, that the betrayal of the aims of such project has been provoked by the alternative European project of ‘market cosmopolitanism'.
L’Europa dei tradimenti. Il cosmopolitismo normativo europeo sotto attacco
PENDENZA, Massimo
2017-01-01
Abstract
The article aims to analyse the project of a cosmopolitan Europe and to show the validity not of its rejection, but rather, of its betrayal. My argument is that Europe has both historical and normative characteristics of a cosmopolitan kind. At the same time, Europe is also moving ‒ due to the current economic-financial and immigration crisis ‒ towards a cosmopolitanism of a different nature, which I call ‘market cosmopolitanism', lacking any internal or external solidarity yet already embedded in the European Union constitutional project. In particular, I intend to develop the following three arguments: 1. that Europe can be considered a more specific historic space of potential affirmation of cosmopolitanism, resting on the principles and respect for the dignity of individuals and peoples; 2. that what I call the ‘normative cosmopolitan' project of Europe can be traced in the articles of the Constitutional Treaties and the Charter of the European fundamental rights; 3. finally, that the betrayal of the aims of such project has been provoked by the alternative European project of ‘market cosmopolitanism'.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
