From the EC to the EU. Ready or Not
From the EC to the EU. Ready or Not
Author(s): Mark GilbertSubject(s): Governance, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Geopolitics
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: European integration; Italy; United Kingdom; Euroscepticism; Brexit;
Summary/Abstract: This article argues that the cases of Italy and the UK suggest that European integration is a contested process and certainly not one that inevitably brings good results. It requires complex national realities to adapt themselves to norms decided collectively at elite level. In hindsight (but not only in hindsight), the UK’s political culture, and Italy’s politicalinstitutional system, were radically unprepared for the shock of accelerating integration in the 1990s and 2000s.
Journal: Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino (before 1960: Prispevki za zgodovino delavskega gibanja)
- Issue Year: 63/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 10-19
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
