The Europeanization of civic duty through emergency politics and vaccination strategies

This paper proposes to analyse how the concept of civic duty in Europe has been impacted by the pandemic. It proposes to review comparatively to what extent emergency politics have forced EU member states to adopt policy measures whose efficiency has been dependent upon varied national or sectorial understandings of civic duties of quarantine, lock-downs, wearing masks and social distancing. Embedded in the Co-Duties project, the paper will provide a first literature review of what the concept of civic duty means in the context of the EU and will question to what extent have EU institutions through their leadership on the Covid-19 vaccination developed a new narrative across on what civic duty means in times of emergency and how the adoption of an EU digital pass has reshaped what European citizenship means. The Europeanization literature will be used to demonstrate to what extent these efforts have led to a coordination of narratives between EU member states and EU institutions.