The European National Welfare States and the Dissolution of the EU

Ivor Altaras Penda

doi:10.2298/FID1802275A

Authors

Ivor Altaras Penda Assistant Professor, Libertas International University, Zagreb / Lecturer, RRiF College of Financial Management, Zagreb

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1802275A

Keywords:

European Union, welfare, dissolution, radicalization

Abstract

This paper examines the causes of prominent radical political options and behaviors that are already visible on a daily basis in the European Union. In public discourse there is a simplified belief that the primarily responsibility for this lies with the immigrants and fear caused by terrorist attacks carried out in Europe or the old European latent nationalism. Although these elements undoubtedly contribute to the development of radicalism, the author argues that the key sources for this issue should be found in the difficulties encountered by the European national welfare states. This is the source of ever-greater mutual intolerance among the citizens of the European Union, which can take on various forms of political, cultural, ideological and physical conflict. On the basis of these arguments the author concludes that the European Union is indeed in a historic milestone but the real danger of the European Union’s disintegration is not primarily in cultural, civilization, confessional, security or geopolitical sources, but this source should first be sought through the prism of the European national social states and the expectations of citizens referring to them.

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