1st Edition

Euroscepticism in Southern Europe A Diachronic Perspective

Edited By Susannah Verney Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Euroscepticism has emerged as a growing constraint on European integration, starting with the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s, continuing with the mid-2000s constitutional debacle and intensifying with the eurozone crisis – a crisis in which Southern Europe has played a key role. But is opposition to European integration really greater now than in the past? The only way to answer this... Read more

1. IS THERE A SOUTH EUROPEAN EUROSCEPTICISM? Susannah Verney, University of Athens

2. THE EBB AND FLOW OF EUROSCEPTICISM IN ITALY, Lucia Quaglia, University of Sussex

3. FROM THE MAINSTREAM TO THE MARGINS: EUROSCEPTICISM IN GREECE, Susannah Verney, University of Athens

4. EUROSCEPTICISM IN PORTUGAL: PARTY AND MASS PERSPECTIVES, Marina Costa Lobo and Pedro Magalhães, Universidade de Lisboa

5. SPAIN: EUROSCEPTICISM IN A PRO-EUROPEAN COUNTRY, Antonia M. Ruiz Jiménez, UNED, Madrid and Alfonso Egea de Haro, Juan March Institute, Madrid

6. TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS FOR EUROSCEPTICISM: THE CASE OF CYPRUS Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides, University of Cyprus

7. MALTESE EUROSCEPTICISM, Roderick Pace, University of Malta

8. EUROSCEPTICISM IN TURKEY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Hakan Yilmaz, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Biography

Susannah Verney is Assistant Professor in European Integration at the University of Athens and has also held Visiting Fellowships at the Universities of Bristol and Bradford. She is Editor of South European Society & Politics (since 1999) and former Associate Editor of The Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2000-2002).