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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Great Recession, the Eurozone Crisis and European Integration -- 2 European Identity -- 3 Legitimacy: Democracy, Accountability and Credibility -- 4 Solidarity: Winners and Losers in European Integration -- 5 Sustaining European Capitalism -- 6 Sustaining Europe's Global Role -- 7 Rethinking European Integration -- Conclusion: Rethinking the Choices for Europe -- References -- Index.

"This is a book about the borderland communities that live on either side of the new European divide and how successful or otherwise they are in influencing the foreign policies of their respective nation-states"--Introduction

On September 30 2007, Ukrainian's went to the polls for the fifth time since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The pre-term parliamentary elections were called far ahead of schedule by President Viktor Yushchenko in March 2007 -- elections were not due until spring 2010 -- in a bid to break the latest round of political deadlock that had dogged the country since the formation of the coalition of 'National Unity' comprising the Party of the Regions, the Socialist party & the Communist Party in August 2006. Political instability & a series of short-lived governments had bedevilled Ukraine since the Orange Revolution of 2004, & the elections of 2007 were not expected to lead to a significant shake-up of the new Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, would very closely resemble its predecessor. Adapted from the source document.

Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004 upset the consensus amongst political scientists about Ukrainian voter behaviour, challenging the notion of voter passivity. Careful pre-election planning that anticipated falsification of the ballot brought protesters to Kyiv rapidly. Sustained and overwhelming pressure from protesters eventually forced through constitutional and electoral reforms that led to the democratic resolution of the crisis.

AbstractThis article re‐examines the role of the media in the UK debate on EU membership. It argues that the embedding of euroscepticism in the UK stems neither from a single phase in the UK–EU relationship, nor from the agency of the UK press or its proprietors. Rather, it resulted from the long‐standing absence of any pro‐European faction within the British polity was able to argue for, or defend, the European Union within the UK national debate. In explaining this, we expand on the concept of 'issue capture' understood as the ability of a vocal minority to dominate the UK's political debate about the EU in the absence of genuine opposition to counteract negative claims and arguments. The findings are drawn from analysis of a dataset that codes more than 16,400 UK newspaper articles published between 1974–2013.