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Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of by Neil Fligstein

By Neil Fligstein

The eu Union's marketplace integration undertaking has dramatically altered fiscal job round Europe. This e-book offers large proof on how exchange has elevated, jobs were created, and ecu company has been reorganized. The alterations within the economic climate were observed by means of dramatic alterations in how humans from assorted societies engage. This booklet argues provocatively that those adjustments have produced a really transnational-European-society. The publication explores the character of that society and its courting to the production of a eu identification, pop culture, and politics. a lot of the present political clash round Europe should be attributed to who's and who's now not fascinated about ecu society. company proprietors, managers, pros, white-collar staff, the informed, and the younger have all benefited from ecu monetary integration, particularly via interacting increasingly more with their opposite numbers in different societies. they generally tend to think about themselves as Europeans. Older, poorer, much less knowledgeable, and blue-collar voters have benefited much less. They view the ecu as intrusive on nationwide sovereignty, or they worry its pro-business orientation will weigh down the nationwide welfare states. they've got maintained nationwide identities. there's a 3rd team of mainly-middle category electorate who see the ecu in regularly optimistic phrases and sometimes--but now not always--think of themselves as Europeans. it truly is this swing workforce that's most crucial for the way forward for the ecu venture. in the event that they desire extra ecu cooperation, politicians will oblige. yet, in the event that they desire that guidelines stay wedded to the country, eu cooperation will stall.

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Given that both the comparative politics and international relations literatures focus only on political processes, they miss how the changes in the economy and in patterns of social action can shift the political calculus in each country. Perhaps most importantly, the economic changes in Europe have beneWted the better educated and skilled the most, those in the middle of the scale somewhat, and The Dynamics of European Society 27 have impacted most negatively the people at the bottom. The dynamic of integration has created both its proponents and its opponents.

Here, governments continue to be ineVective in combating slow growth and inXation, but keep the EU at its current institutional level. This could happen without increased cooperation across Europe. In this version, each welfare state decides to follow its own path toward economic and social reform. There may be some borrowing of ideas across societies, but mostly policy choices will be made in national contexts. A third scenario is for there to be more cooperation amongst member-state governments on issues of employment and social welfare.

The functional division between policy Welds in the EU and the member-state governments is striking. While all issues of trade are open to discussion and decision in Brussels, the governments have Wrmly kept all issues to do with welfare states, such as pensions, social security, job training, education, and labor relations under their national control. They have also resisted eVorts on the part of some member states to harmonize rates of taxation which would, of course, aVect the ability of governments to raise money to pay for their welfare state apparatuses.

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