Perspectives of Solidarity within the EU Legal Order in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has put the single national structures and models to the test and, at the same time, has revealed the need for urgent as well as long-lasting political, health and economic strategic choices at the supranational level. As for the EU, the health emergency has brought to light new challenges for its future in terms of internal structural strategies and vision when dealing with situations of crisis. The article intends to offer an appraisal of the EU response to the Covid-19 pandemic by assessing the substantial practical and theoretical role of solidarity in shaping the main legal instruments for responding to this emergency.