Who Benefits? The European Construction of the Common

Abstract

What if the true European deficit were not as much of a democratic deficit (understood as a procedure for participation and popular legitimacy) but instead an intelligibility deficit of the common, which is the origin of the deficit of justice and cooperation? I pose this question, taking as my starting point the idea that the measures that should be adopted in order to complete the European institutional edifice refer in the end to a conception of transnational justice that we have not yet achieved in the European space, in theory or in practice, because we remain tied to a heavy conceptual burden that hinders us from doing so. The way we label current financial imbalances in the Eurozone is an eloquent illustration of how far we are from seeing ourselves as a common space of justice and solidarity.