Eurocrisis, Contentious Politics and Regional Support for the EU

Abstract

The financial crisis has brought to the fore the difficulties of EU governance of the crisis. On the one hand there has been an attempt to exacerbate the crisis by building a political myth of crisis in the European Union to have it serve as a catalyst for further integration. In this panel this issue is discussed using narrative theory to argue that the current economic crisis has shown the limitations of this narrative because of the lack of a coherent political vision about the future of the European Union. On the other hand, the crisis has led to increasingly costly EU decisions that in turn have challenged the dynamics of decision-making in Brussels and have renewed the opportunities for national political parties to engage with EU issues, formally – through direct interventions in decision-making, or informally – as a by-product of national political contestation. In this panel the role of national political parties in EU decision-making is examined comparatively looking at the involvement of political parties in the UK and Germany in the negotiations of the Fiscal Compact

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Narrating Crisis and Decline in the European Union	View Paper Details
Party Politics Vs the National Interest? UK and German Political Parties and the Negotiations of the Fiscal Compact	View Paper Details