The concept of solidarity within EU disaster response law. A legal assessment.

Over the last years, the increase of emergencies occurring within the EU or originating outside but having repercussion on it has progressively brought to light the need to identify a common understanding of solidarity in the EU legal order. The book provides an overview of the so-called EU disaster response law and an appraisal of its peculiarity by assessing the substantial practical and theoretical role of solidarity in shaping the main legal instruments for disaster response occurring inside the Union. Specific attention is devoted to the existing instruments providing financial and in-kind assistance in the event of a disaster and to the analysis of the recent initiatives concerning the provision of assistance to face the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The detailed analysis of the legal value of the solidarity clause set in Art. 222 TFEU then allows to evaluate the effective existence of solidarity obligations within EU disaster response law.