HOW TO COPE WITH THE AMBIVALENCE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION? A CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S AGENDA
HOW TO COPE WITH THE AMBIVALENCE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION? A CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S AGENDA
Author(s): Peter PichlerSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Facultatea de Studii Europene -Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Cultural history of European integration; identity; theory; ambivalence; ambiguities;
Summary/Abstract: In this article, I put forward the thesis that the new Juncker Commission's main task in the years from 2014 to 2019 has to be to establish a "modus vivendi" in dealing with aspects of ambiguity and ambivalence inherent in European integration after 1945. I start by analyzing the discourse of ambivalence that accompanied the May 2014 European elections and the decision process that made Jean-Claude Juncker become the new Commission's president.
Journal: Online Journal Modelling the New Europe
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 122-137
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English