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Comment: history, democracy and the European Union

Luca Asmonti-2013-01-01-Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland)
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In many debt-ridden European countries, the current financial crisis has forced national parliaments to pass harsh fiscal measures and welfare cuts to comply with the lending requirements laid out by the infamous troikamthe European Union, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. No less importantly, this crisis is also raising, yet again, some serious questions about the democratic accountability of the European Union...Moving from an analysis of the cultural and historical repercussions of the EU crisis, this paper will enquire whether concealing national differences under the cloak of a vaguely defined common cultural heritage has in fact been detrimental to the development of a shared political culture and a European demos.

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In many debt-ridden European countries, the current financial crisis has forced national parliaments to pass harsh fiscal measures and welfare cuts to comply with the lending requirements laid out by the infamous troikamthe European Union, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. No less importantly, this crisis is also raising, yet again, some serious questions about the democratic accountability of the European Union...Moving from an analysis of the cultural and historical repercussions of the EU crisis, this paper will enquire whether concealing national differences under the cloak of a vaguely defined common cultural heritage has in fact been detrimental to the development of a shared political culture and a European demos.

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European unionEuropean debt crisisDemocracyDebt crisisPolitical scienceEuropean integrationPoliticsDebt

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