Party-based Euroscepticism in the Nordic region: Ever more 'reluctant Europeans'?

Benjamin Leruth

doi:10.4324/9781315464015.ch11

Party-based Euroscepticism in the Nordic region: Ever more 'reluctant Europeans'?

Benjamin Leruth

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	11
Pages	127-138
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315464008
ISBN (Print)	9781315464015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315464015.ch11
Publication status	Published - 28 Jul 2017

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