What does justice require concerning socio-economic distribution among citizens of the European Union? The EU should reduce cross-national economic inequalities among inhabitants of different member states, but full economic distributive equality or a European ‘Difference Principle,' may not be required. Individuals' claim to more political influence over matters controlled by their own state in the quasi-federal EU may permit some economic inequality. Section 1 orients this contribution relative to arguments for a European universal income. Section 2 provides relevant features of the EU. Section 3 considers contractualist arguments against certain forms of economic inequality, while section 4 identifies a further argument in favour of equal shares of benefits of social cooperation, based on an interpretation of ‘social primary goods' consistent with Rawls' theory. Section 5 argues that these reasons for economic distributive equality must be weighed against more political influence over matters controlled by the individual’s sub-unit.

关于欧盟公民之间的社会经济分配，正义需要什么？欧盟应该减少不同成员国居民之间的跨国经济不平等，但可能不需要完全的经济分配平等或欧洲的“差别原则”。在准联邦制欧盟中，个人声称对其本国控制的事务具有更大的政治影响力，这可能会导致一些经济不平等。第 1 节将此贡献与欧洲普遍收入的论点相关联。第 2 节提供了欧盟的相关特征。第 3 节考虑了反对某些形式的经济不平等的契约主义论点，而第 4 节则确定了支持平等的进一步论点。基于与罗尔斯理论一致的对“社会初级商品”的解释，社会合作的利益份额。第 5 节认为，经济分配平等的这些原因必须与对个人子单位控制的事务的更多政治影响进行权衡。