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Economic crisis and the recent loss of legitimation of the European Union (EU) are tightly coupled. This chapter discusses foreign language competence as a promising individual resilience strategy in times of crisis, which simultaneously fosters European identification and can thus make a modest contribution to raise the EU’s average level of political legitimacy.
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Medrano, J.D. (2015). Individual and Collective Responses to Crisis: An Analytical Framework for the Study of Social Resilience. In: Trenz, HJ., Ruzza, C., Guiraudon, V. (eds) Europe’s Prolonged Crisis. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493675_6
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