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"Exploring undereported and often mischaracterized ""Euro-sceptic"" arguments over the goals and methods of European intergration, this collection brings together ""Euro-sceptic"", ""Euro-pessimistic"" and ""Euro-phobic"" speeches, essays and other documents that illustrate the range of opposition to the European Union. The balancing against the integrationalist goal of federalism, the guide gives a full airing to the various arguements against ""ever-closer union"". The reader offers classic statements of the ""Europe of the Nations"" views of Charles de Gaulle and Margaret Thatcher as well as French ""sovereignists"" such as Charels Pasqua and Jean-Pierre Chevenement, and includes more recent arguments by Michael Portillo and Noel Malcom. There are interviews with and analyses of far-right or ""national right"" movements and their leaders Jorg Haider and the Austria Freedom party and Jean-Marie Le Pen and the French National front. The special case of Norway - the only country that has said ""no"" (twice) to EU membership - is analyzed by a Norwegian scholar, and two historians argue that European integration overall is in some sense a great illusion or a misguided ""division of the West""."

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Author:   Ronald Tiersky, Amherst College ,  Charles de Gaulle ,  Stanley Hoffmann ,  Margaret Thatcher
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9780742510531

ISBN 10:   0742510530
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 July 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Ronald Tiersky is Eastman Professor of Politics at Amherst College and the author of Fran_ois Mitterrand: The Last French President

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