European Integration and new Anti-Europeanism. Vol. 2

The 2014 European Election and New Anti-European Forces in Southern, Northern and Eastern Europe

Edited by Patrick Moreau Edited by Birte Wassenberg

Book cover: European Integration and new Anti-Europeanism. Vol. 2

Extent: 239 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Business & Economics, Social Sciences 

Series: Studien zur Geschichte der Europaischen Integration

Language: English, German

Paperback (Published)

(August 2016)

ISBN: 9783515114554

6.69 x 9.49 inches

Price: $87.00

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The economic crises since 2008, the tensions concerning the Euro, the Greek question and the refugee problem have fuelled a strong “Eurosceptic” movement. At the 2014 European elections, the rise of Eurosceptic forces could be observed in virtually all Member States of the EU. This publication regroups the contributions to a Conference organized 2014 in Strasburg by the CNRS-University of Strasbourg research unit “UMR Dynamiques europeennes”, in the framework of the IDEX excellence project “The European Integration and the New Anti-Europeanism”. In this second of two volumes, three groups of EU Member States are analysed: Mediterranean (Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, Greece), Scandinavian States (Sweden, Finland) and Austria; finally, Eastern European and Baltic States (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia). Does the discourse of Eurosceptic parties in Eastern Europe differ from national-populists in the Nordic States or Austria? Is anti-Europeanism of the Greek or Cypriot extreme right similar to that of “parties of disruption” in Italy (Five Star Movement) or Spain (Podemos)? Can we equate anti-Europeanism of Czech Communists and alter-Europeanists in the Baltic States?


The economic crises since 2008, the tensions concerning the Euro, the Greek question and the refugee problem have fuelled a strong “Eurosceptic” movement. At the 2014 European elections, the rise of Eurosceptic forces could be observed in virtually all Member States of the EU. This publication regroups the contributions to a Conference organized 2014 in Strasburg by the CNRS-University of Strasbourg research unit “UMR Dynamiques europeennes”, in the framework of the IDEX excellence project “The European Integration and the New Anti-Europeanism”. In this second of two volumes, three groups of EU Member States are analysed: Mediterranean (Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, Greece), Scandinavian States (Sweden, Finland) and Austria; finally, Eastern European and Baltic States (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia). Does the discourse of Eurosceptic parties in Eastern Europe differ from national-populists in the Nordic States or Austria? Is anti-Europeanism of the Greek or Cypriot extreme right similar to that of “parties of disruption” in Italy (Five Star Movement) or Spain (Podemos)? Can we equate anti-Europeanism of Czech Communists and alter-Europeanists in the Baltic States?

  • Edited by Patrick Moreau
  • Edited by Birte Wassenberg