Party-based Euroscepticism in the Nordic region:Ever more 'reluctant Europeans'?
The Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway) have a well-established ‘love–hate relationship’ with the European Union (EU). Even though they constituted ‘a linguistic, cultural, economic, social, and political-ideological area, of considerable homogeneity’ (Andrén 1967: 8–9),...
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/publications/427aa3ac-83d6-4ae0-96b0-a41aced2347e https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315464015.ch11 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040556758&partnerID=8YFLogxK |
| Summary: | The Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Norway) have a well-established ‘love–hate relationship’ with the European Union (EU). Even though they constituted ‘a linguistic, cultural, economic, social, and political-ideological area, of considerable homogeneity’ (Andrén 1967: 8–9), each of them changed its relations and relationships with the EU institutions at a different pace and level, often displaying high levels of public opposition. Miljan (1977) famously nicknamed the Nordic countries ‘reluctant Europeans’, a notion also used by Gstöhl (2002) in her study of Norway, Sweden and Switzerland's relationship with the EU. |
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