The European sovereign debt crisis and the political turf wars it entailed have
underlined both the political relevance and the fragile state of transnational solidarity in
the European Union. In this paper, we study to what degree German and British citizens
display some forms of solidarity with fellow Europeans by analysing their redistributional
behaviour in laboratory experiments. We examine to what extent people are willing to
redistribute EU-wide, and which personal characteristics make people more generous
towards other Europeans. Our analyses find that people are most willing to redistribute
locally rather than nationally or EU-wide, and that people’s orientations towards
European integration are the strongest predictor of transnational redistribution, while
political ideology and inequality aversion don’t seem to play a role.