Dr. Raphaela Hobbach worked as a Research Associate at the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 2015 to 2020, where she specialised in European politics and international relations. Currently, she works as a Senior Project Manager in the field of European democracy and international dialogue at the independent think tank Das Progressive Zentrum in Berlin.

Introduction: On the relevance of European solidarity.- Conceptualisation and theory.- Research design and data basis.- The overall pattern of public justifications.- National comparison I: the relevance of European solidarity in the French versus the German debate during the euro crisis.- National comparison II: the relevance of European solidarity in the French versus the German debate during the migration crisis.- Crisis comparison: the relevance of European solidarity during the euro crisis versus the migration crisis in France and Germany.- Summary and discussion.