Subtitle
left populism and regional integration
Publication Name
Soundings : A journal of politics and culture
Volume, number, page
63: 1, pp.25-37
Year of Publication
2016
Organization Name
Lawrence & Wishart
Publisher
Lawrence & Wishart
City
London
Web Page
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Full Date
Summer 2016
ISBN or ISSN
1362-6620
Category
Academic articles
Abstract
Must regional integration be based on neoliberal competition?
The EU’s inability to deal with the challenges of the global financial crisis of 2008 and the refugee crisis of 2015-6, together with the (not unrelated) emergence of divisive right-wing nationalisms across the Union, has called into question the very possibility of a transnational European identity, or of a common economic and political strategy that is capable of responding to the democratic mandate of the peoples of Europe. The aim of this article is to explore ways of rebuilding a popular left politics that is capable of operating at the European level and restoring faith in the potential of a European project for social justice and equality
The EU’s inability to deal with the challenges of the global financial crisis of 2008 and the refugee crisis of 2015-6, together with the (not unrelated) emergence of divisive right-wing nationalisms across the Union, has called into question the very possibility of a transnational European identity, or of a common economic and political strategy that is capable of responding to the democratic mandate of the peoples of Europe. The aim of this article is to explore ways of rebuilding a popular left politics that is capable of operating at the European level and restoring faith in the potential of a European project for social justice and equality