Dr. Christian Rebhan: North Atlantic Euroscepticism: The rejection of EU Membership in the Faroe Islands and Greenland

"The book explores the interesting question of why the Faroe Islands and Greenland opted to stay outside the European Union (EU) at a time when most European countries aspired to join the EU before an era of growing extremism and opt-out debates. Although the focus of the analysis is on the pos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ágúst Einarsson
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Icelandic
Published: University of Iceland 2016
Subjects:
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
Political science (General)
JA1-92
Faroe Islands
Greenland
Iceland
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ee44b1d297cf4a1b819af8748d14ffb3
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Summary:"The book explores the interesting question of why the Faroe Islands and Greenland opted to stay outside the European Union (EU) at a time when most European countries aspired to join the EU before an era of growing extremism and opt-out debates. Although the focus of the analysis is on the positions taken by the Faroe Islands and Greenland, there is also some discussion of a similar attitude that has prevailed in Iceland".

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