In recent years, Eurosceptics have gradually gained ground in Europe, culminating in their resounding success in the British referendum of June 2016, and leading, for the first time in the history of the process of European integration, to an individual country’s exit from the European Union. More and more, this phenomenon has drawn the attention of the world of politics, information and culture, but there are still many aspects that need to be studied and examined, not least because euroscepticism is commonly confused with eurocriticism or even other-Europeanism; also, the relationship between «new» euroscepticism, born out of the contradictions of the Maastricht Treaty, and «old» anti-Europeanism, an expression of the logic of the Cold War, has never been carefully examined. The objective of this volume is to analyse the situation through an interdisciplinary approach, which is particularly helpful for understanding a multifaceted and elusive reality.
Guido Levi is a researcher of the History of International Relations at the University of Genoa. One of his many publications, co-authored with Fabio Sozzi and relevant to this subject, is «Unione politica in progress. Partiti e gruppi parlamentari europei (1953-2014)» (Cedam 2015). Daniela Preda is full professor of Contemporary History and holds the Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in «History and Politics of European Integration» at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Genoa.
- Preface, by Realino Marra
- Introduction, by Guido Levi
- Part I: The Theoretical Dimension
- Populist nationalism as a major form of Euroscepticism, by Alberto Martinelli
- Euroscepticism, the highest stage of nationalism, by Umberto Morelli
- Euroscepticism and the public sphere, by Marinella Belluati
- The crisis of the Integration Process and its impact on the European narrative, by Antonio Moreno Juste
- Hard Euroscepticism within the European Parliament, by Angelo Santagostino and Sühal
Şemşit
- Part 2: Anti-Europeanism and Euroscepticism
in Italy
- Politics and Utopia considering Christian Left-Wing Movements and Europe’s Future (1943-1947), by Luca Barbaini
- From disdain to enchantment. Euroscepticism in the political culture of Italian Communists, by Mauro Maggiorani
- Giorgio Amendola and the European Economic Cooperation as alternative to the European Communities (1954-1962), by Gianvito
Galasso
- The Treaty of Rome: a «huge fraud». Federalist criticism of Governmental Europe, by Raffaella Cinquanta
- MSI’s Other Europe, by Giuseppe Parlato
- The Idea of Europe in the Parliamentary Activity of the Italian Right, by Matteo Antonio Napolitano
- The Italian Social Movement in the Institutions of the European Community. From the Euro-right wing Alliance to the Group of the European right wing Parties (1978-1989), by Silvio Berardi
- The Peculiarities of Berlusconi’s Euro-scepticism since the 1990s, by Emidio Diodato
- Maastricht, namely, the birth of a new conflictuality about European Integration in the Italian Party System, by Massimo Piermattei
- From the Europe of the Regions to the Europe of Technocrats: the EU according to the Lega Nord, by Valeria Tarditi
- «In Europe for Italy»: problematizing EU-Institutions and Political Agenda. The case of the Italian Five Star Movement, by Maria Elisabetta Lanzone
- Part 3: Anti-Europeanism and Euroscepticism
in Europe
- Continuity and discontinuity in French Euroscepticism: the case of the EDC from a long-term perspective, by Daniela Preda
- The French Communist Party and the party leader Georges Marchais (1972-1994): Euroscepticism in the decline of the party and its media representation, by Raffaello A. Doro
- Euro-critical positions in French Socialism: Jean-Pierre Chevènement and the Mouvement des Citoyens, by Paolo Caraffini
- Alain de Benoist, the New Right and Europe, by Andrea Becherucci
- The Front national and Europe. Uses, stakes and instrumentalizations of the French Extreme Right, by Andreas Wilkens
- Populism and Euroscepticism: the case of Germany, by Alessandro Cavalli
- The German Greens’ long march from the opposition to the European Communities to a struggle for a more democratic, federal and ecological European Union (1979-2016), by Giorgio Grimaldi
- Between Ordoliberalism and Neo-Nationalism: The Euroscepticism of Alternative für Deutschland, by Stefano Quirico
- Labour’s Euroscepticism and the Socialist International (1948-1952), by Ettore Costa
- The Tories between Europhilia and Euro-scepticism: from Churchill to Thatcher, by Eva
Garau
- Larry Siedentop: Anglo-Saxon Liberalism and critique of Europeanism, by Walter Ghia
- From «I hope that we are going to leave this Union» to «you’re not laughing now, are you?». Nigel Farage pre- and post-Brexit: some linguistic remarks, by Francesco Pierini
- Spanish Political Parties and Europe: from idyll to disenchantment (1975-2016), by Guido
Levi
- Catalanism and anti-Europeanism. The productivity of euro- and anti- in 21st Century Catalan compound words, by Marco Cipolloni
- Podemos. From Madrid to Strasbourg and back, by Daniela Carpani
- From Euro-optimism to Euro-scepticism. Austria’s long march towards European integration (1945-2005), by Luca Lecis
- From Anti-communism to Euroscepticism in Eastern Europe, by Angelo Scotto
- Slovenia: between invisible Euroscepticism and evident Euroindifference, by Marco Stolfo
- Euroscepticism in the Nordic Countries. A National Identity Approach in Comparative Perspective, by Fabio Sozzi
- Immigration and Euroscepticism: the case of the Netherlands and of Hungary, by Silvia
Giulini
- The light and shadow of Danish Euroscepticism: opposition to and participation in the European integration process, by Filippo Maria Giordano
- Euroscepticism and populism: evidence from Russia, by Mara Morini
- State-Euroscepticism First! The Soviet Union against hypotheses and moments of European Unity, by Lara Piccardo
- Afterword, by Giacomo Ronzitti
- Index of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- Index of Names