The European Migrant Crisis and the Future of the European Project

2017 ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Phillips
Keyword(s):  
European Project ◽  
The Future

The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashoka Mody
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
Fiscal Rules ◽  
Fiscal Discipline ◽  
European Project ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right

This chapter describes two scenarios, the two possible ways in which the final act of the European project plays out. In the first scenario, European authorities remain confident that they have essentially been on the right track and they continue to make modest course corrections, which they believe will ensure a brighter European future. However, the elusive and frustrating pursuit of deeper economic and financial integration causes more economic and political damage. Setbacks and crises recur to test the euro and its accompanying political vision. In the second scenario, the pro-European vision, European authorities recognize the important truth that “more Europe” will not solve Europe's most pressing economic and social problems. They dismantle the economically counterproductive and politically corrosive system of fiscal rules and rely more on financial markets to enforce fiscal discipline. Paradoxically, the euro survives, not because it adds value but because it becomes largely irrelevant.

The Euro Is Doomed

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Granville
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Great Care ◽  
European Project ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
The Future

As dismantling the monetary union may collapse the European project, doubts about the future of the euro are often unwelcome in polite society. Those expressing such views must proceed with great care.

Public Opinion in European Union Politics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
European Project ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Eu

Public contestation regarding European integration is becoming increasingly important for the future of the European project. While traditionally European Union (EU) scholars deemed public opinion of minor importance for the process of European integration, public support and scepticism is now seen as crucial for the survival of the European project. One important reason for this change in perspective is the increasing politicization of the EU in domestic politics. In recent years, a burgeoning literature on public contestation concerning European integration has developed. Students of public opinion in the EU have primarily focused their attention on the explanations of fluctuations in support and scepticism. This work stresses both interest- and identity-based explanations showing that support for European integration increases with skill levels and more inclusive identities. Less attention has been given to the conceptualization of the precise nature of public opinion and its role in EU politics. When it comes to the politicization of European integration and its effects on public opinion, many scholarly contributions have aimed to explore the conditions under which EU attitudes affect voting behavior in elections and referendums. Yet, the way in which public opinion affects policy making and responsiveness at the EU level has received much less scholarly attention. This suggests that more work needs to be undertaken to understand the conditions under which public contestation of the EU constrains the room to maneuver of domestic and European elites at the EU level, and the extent to which it poses a challenge to, or opportunity for, further integrative steps in Europe. Only by gaining a better understanding about the ways public opinion limits the actions of domestic and European elites or not at the EU level, will scholars be able to make predictions about how public opinion might affect the future of the European project.

scholarly journals The Future of European Values

Araucaria ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
AC Grayling
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
European Project ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Future ◽  
European Values

The EU’s values of transnational peace, cooperation, secularism, rationality, and protection of civil liberties and human rights are amongst the most valuable legacies of the Enlightenment. The European project has weathered several crises in the first third of the 21st century, including a change of political direction in the United Kingdom. Brexit is viewed as a consequence of the UK’s flawed electoral system, exposed as susceptible to hijacking by militant and disruptive minorities. The future of European values must be protected from politically unreliable systems such as the UK’s FPTP.

ACSEPT, A European Project for a New Step in the Future Demonstration of Advanced Fuel Processing

2010 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
S. Bourg ◽  
C. Hill ◽  
C. Caravaca ◽  
A. Espartero ◽  
C. Rhodes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Processing ◽  
European Project ◽  
The Future ◽  
Advanced Fuel

Brexit: Europe's ‘Black Thursday’ and Scotland's Future

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Bort
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Project ◽  
The Future ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Uk

The shock waves of the UK's EU referendum outcome reverberate in a Divided Kingdom, with huge implications for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and across Europe, where populists of all political shades take succour from the UK electorate's decision (51.9% for Leave, 48.1% Remain) to end the country's 43-year membership of the European project. The campaign was dominated by hyperbole and outright lies, with racist and xenophobic undertones, the result quite apparently unexpected, the aftermath chaotic, and it remains to be seen what the long-term impact on the UK-EU relationship, on the UK constitution, on ‘Scotland's place in Europe’, and on the future of the European Union will be.

Europe at the Millennium

Politics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Kaldor
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
European Project ◽  
New Wars ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Future

This article argues that the future of the European project depends on the capacity to maintain security. It traces the link between security and political institutions in the case of nation states and, subsequently, blocs. The security of nation states and blocs was defined in terms of the defence of borders against an external enemy and the preservation of law and order within borders. Today, the distinction between internal and external has broken down; ‘new wars’ are a mixture of war, organised crime and violations of human rights. Security can only be maintained through the extension of law and order beyond borders – through enlargement, migration and citizenship policies, and effective humanitarian intervention. Any other approach could lead to a reversal of the process of integration. This type of security policy is likely to be associated with a very different type of polity.

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