Saila Heinikoski is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-author, along with Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark and Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen, of Demilitarization and International Law in Context (2018).

Integral to the European Union project has been the idea of free movement across national borders, but its implementation raises multiple questions about competing rationales, goals, and notions of solidarity. Saila Heinikoski helps us make sense of all this in her insightful analysis of elite debates over time. At this fraught moment in the history of that project, this is essential reading.

• List of TablesList of Figures1. Introduction2. The Context: Free Movement in Europe and an Overview of Relevant Research3. Conceptual Framework and Methodology4. Agreement Dimension: Emphasis on Common Duties5. Community Dimension: Reproducing the Community of the European Union6. Utility Dimension: Optimizing Concrete Benefits7. Solidarity Dimension: Solidarity as the Ultimate Aim8. Understanding Different National Positions9. Free Movement Discourses by Country10. Free Movement Discourses as Practical ReasoningAppendix I: Material Selection and Speaker-Specific TablesBibliographyIndex

Saila Heinikoski is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-author, along with Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark and Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen, of Demilitarization and International Law in Context (2018).

Integral to the European Union project has been the idea of free movement across national borders, but its implementation raises multiple questions about competing rationales, goals, and notions of solidarity. Saila Heinikoski helps us make sense of all this in her insightful analysis of elite debates over time. At this fraught moment in the history of that project, this is essential reading.

• List of TablesList of Figures1. Introduction2. The Context: Free Movement in Europe and an Overview of Relevant Research3. Conceptual Framework and Methodology4. Agreement Dimension: Emphasis on Common Duties5. Community Dimension: Reproducing the Community of the European Union6. Utility Dimension: Optimizing Concrete Benefits7. Solidarity Dimension: Solidarity as the Ultimate Aim8. Understanding Different National Positions9. Free Movement Discourses by Country10. Free Movement Discourses as Practical ReasoningAppendix I: Material Selection and Speaker-Specific TablesBibliographyIndex

Saila Heinikoski is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the co-author, along with Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark and Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen, of Demilitarization and International Law in Context (2018).

Integral to the European Union project has been the idea of free movement across national borders, but its implementation raises multiple questions about competing rationales, goals, and notions of solidarity. Saila Heinikoski helps us make sense of all this in her insightful analysis of elite debates over time. At this fraught moment in the history of that project, this is essential reading.

• List of TablesList of Figures1. Introduction2. The Context: Free Movement in Europe and an Overview of Relevant Research3. Conceptual Framework and Methodology4. Agreement Dimension: Emphasis on Common Duties5. Community Dimension: Reproducing the Community of the European Union6. Utility Dimension: Optimizing Concrete Benefits7. Solidarity Dimension: Solidarity as the Ultimate Aim8. Understanding Different National Positions9. Free Movement Discourses by Country10. Free Movement Discourses as Practical ReasoningAppendix I: Material Selection and Speaker-Specific TablesBibliographyIndex