Against European integration: the EU and its discontents
In: Economics in the real world
Existential crisis, the possibility of disintegration and the European Union in the 2010s -- Inequality within and among member countries undermined homogenization and became a source of discontents -- The political representation of discontent : disappearing traditional political parties and rising populism -- Brexit and its possible impact -- Anti-European Union populism in Western and Southern Europe -- Populism flooded Eastern Europe and the Balkans : undermining the EU -- Christian Europe? The use and abuse of Christian values and the populist debate -- The demonization of George Soros and its real meaning in Central and Eastern Europe -- Is the European Union a neoliberal construction that deserves to be destroyed? A debate with left-wing attacks -- Outside discontents on the outside : the weakening alliance with the US, a hostile Russia, and Turkey and China at the borders -- Out from crisis or between crises? The EU of the future?