Euro-skepticism: A Reader

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 .