"May it bring them comfort and hope for the future and bring the leaders of nations to show them effective solidarity," he added.
The leaders will call for "swift completion" of a new EU asylum law, stalled for two years over the idea of compulsory refugee quotas, while reiterating the need for "an effective solidarity mechanism" - a shorthand for all member states to help deal with refugees in Europe.
And I count as standard-bearers the University of Missouri student activists whose protests against campus racism led their university's president to resign and sparked highly effective solidarity campaigns at colleges nationwide.
It can't be anything other than irritating to hear of the antics of the retired cohort of former Fleet Streeters who benefited from a period of management largesse and effective union solidarity.
And it underpins a flight from solidarity, effective action, and often, Europe's shared reality.
The ruling against pregnant girls attending school is indeed unjust, but while outsiders can show solidarity, effective change will only come from within Sierra Leone.
Now, clearly, whether Europe works as an effective system of solidarity among its members to protect them from "systemic risks", or simply sets a juridical framework to promote a greater degree of competition among them, will determine the future of Europe politically, socially, and culturally.
In these countries' consecrated vision of themselves, it is those networks that serve both as an effective bond of solidarity to those with feelings of injustice — immigrants, the jobless, the working poor — and the state's best bulwark against violence and despair.
It is for this reason that I think the AUT lacks the one vital ingredient for a union to be effective, that is, solidarity.
Now, clearly, whether Europe works as an effective system of solidarity among its members to protect them from "systemic risks," or (pushed by States who are momentarily more powerful, and their public opinions) simply sets a juridical framework to promote a greater degree of competition among them and their citizens, this will determine the future of Europe politically, socially, and culturally.
Can the West really fix all of these problems through effective leadership and solidarity?
