This book provides essential insights into contemporary political actors narratives of European integration.
Focusing on the Future of Europe debate in parliaments, the book reveals how the question of democracy in Europe is addressed. Through the lens of differentiation, it explores the numerous nuances within narratives on the EU. Based on an extensive empirical analysis of debates from 11 national parliaments and the European Parliament over a period of seven years (2015-2021), it provides substantial understanding of the circulation of ideas on Europe within and among member states. Finally, the book offers a reflection on reforming the EU and the different constitutional narratives shaping the future of the EU.
This book is of key interest to scholars and students interested in European integration, the European Parliament, democracy, and political parties.
This book provides essential insights into contemporary political actors narratives of European integration.
1. National and European debates on the Future of European Democracy: An
Introduction
2. A Comparative Perspective on the Future of Europe Debate in
National Parliaments: Mapping Democracy, Differentiation and Dominance
3.
French Perspectives on the Future of Europe: Debating European Sovereignty
4.
The German Debate on the Future of Europe at the End of the Merkel Era:
Governmental Pragmatism and Visions from the Opposition?
5. The Greek
Parliament and the Future of Europe: Between Nebulous Ideological Narratives
and Conflicting Partisan Strategies on European Integration
6. Debates on the
Future of Europe in the Danish Folketing: Between Economic Membership
Benefits and Political Autonomy
7. Sweden and the Limits of Euro-Optimism:
Pragmatic Integration or Political Reluctance?
8. The Future of Europe Debate
in Poland: Old Dilemmas in the Politicised Context
9. The Hungarian
Munchausen Parliament and the Future of the European Union: Debating the
Contours of an Anti-Constitutional Project
10. The Czech Republics Efforts
to Find its Place amid the European Crises of 20152021: No More Integration?
11. Norway as Europes Closest Outsider: Views of European Integration from a
Non-Member
12. European Parliament Groups Perspectives on the Future of
Europe: In the European House of Conflicting Ideas
13. Right-Wing Eurosceptic
Members of the European Parliament: A Challenge to the European Future?
14.
Concluding Reflections
Magdalena Góra is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
Elodie Thevenin is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
Katarzyna Zieliska is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
