Euroscepticism in Italy from the Onset of the Crisis: Tired of Europe?

Conti, Nicolò; Marangoni, Francesco; Verzichelli, Luca

doi:10.1080/13608746.2020.1757885

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“…In Italy, EU-mandated austerity and the question of national vs. supranational authority has produced a new pro/anti-EU cleavage that transcends previous EUrelated contentious issues, such as migration and economy (Giannetti, Pedrazzani, Pinto, 2017: 35). Further, in the Italian case, one could, according to newest research, observe a congruence between a Eurosceptic shift among party elites and among voters (Conti, Marangoni, and Verzichelli, 2020).…”

Section: Austerity Anger and Alternation / šTednja Ljutnja I Izmjenji...mentioning

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After the Storm: Party Systems in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Eurocrisis

Raos¹

2022

Contemporary Mediterranean

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For years, the countries of Southern Europe have struggled with the consequences of the sovereign debt crisis. Under external pressure they enacted harsh austerity measures which resulted in shaken trust in the European Union, new protest movements and the entrance of new political parties in legislatures and governments. A decade later, this paper poses the question whether the storm of the European sovereign debt crisis has left an impact on Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The article focuses on changes on the macro-level and analyzes party system changes with the help of data from the CMP/MARPOR dataset. The paper deals with changes in the attitude towards the European Union, the position on the left-right scale (RILE), as well as economic and welfare policy. The analysis has shown a weak decrease in positive attitudes towards the EU in Italy, a moderate leftward shift of the Spanish party system, as well as a moderate decrease in positive attitudes towards the role of the state in the economy in the Greek case. In conclusion, one can say that ten years after the European sovereign debt crisis it is not possible to speak of drastic party system change in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and that external pressure has not succeeded in having an impact on the fact that Southern European party systems are, in general, titled towards the left.

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Section: Austerity Anger and Alternation / šTednja Ljutnja I Izmjenji...mentioning

confidence: 99%

After the Storm: Party Systems in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Eurocrisis

Raos¹

2022

Contemporary Mediterranean

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“…Although Italy is one of the founding Member States of the EU and traditionally one of the most pro-European countries, it has had a polarised party system regarding the EU. Euroscepticism has increased and its political leaders have become more vocal in that regard (Conti et al, 2020).…”

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How the European Union responded to populism and its implications for public sector reforms

Ongaro

Mascio

Natalini

2022

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A major shift occurred in the European Union (EU) approach to tackle the apparently unstoppable rise of populist parties across European countries and to preserve the integrity of the EU polity. EU economic governance seems to have shifted from a logic of conditionality to a logic of solidarity underpinned by a pan-European strategic view allowing EU governance to support and enable public sector reforms at the national level. By investigating the case of Italy as an EU member state, we find that the European governance shift occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic was largely mediated by the mutating character of Italian populism. A logic of conditionality which was largely centered around EU governance was largely shifted to a logic of solidarity taking into account political conditions in the member countries.

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“…This was especially true after the EU-Turkey deal through which other legal routes for migrants were closed. This could explain why Conti, Marangoni and Verzichelli (2020) found that Euroscepticism in Italy increased after the outbreak of the Eurozone crisis, but was strongly linked to anti-immigration sentiments by political actors during the 2019 EP elections. Altogether, we hypothesize: H5: Parties' positions on the EU-related issues will be more strongly related to the cultural dimension in North-Western Europe in 2009 and 2014, as compared to Southern Europe and Central-and Eastern Europe.…”

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Party competition over EU integration: asymmetrical impacts of external shocks across regions?

Huijsmans

Krouwel²

2021

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Using Voting Advice Application (VAA) data from the EU Profiler/euandi Trend File, we studied how parties’ positions towards European integration relate to their positions on other important issues, and how this varies across EP elections, and between European regions. We hypothesized that the association between parties’ EU-integration positions and their positions on other issues was affected by the three major crises that hit the European Union (EU) between 2009 and 2019: the economic, migration, and climate crises. Additionally, we hypothesized that the economic and migration crises asymmetrically affected the association between cultural and economic issues on the one hand and the EU dimension on the other across the EU’s three macro regions (NWE, SE, and CEE). Our results show that neither the economic crisis nor the migration crisis or the climate crisis had an EU-wide impact on how European integration relates to other issue dimensions. As we hypothesized, economic issues were particularly strongly linked to EU-integration positions in SE in 2014, but our results additionally indicated that the longstanding interpretation of EU integration as a mainly economic issue in SE diminished after the start of the migration crisis. Finally, EU integration became related to immigration issues in CEE while this is not the case in the other regions. The main takeaway is that EU integration is interpreted differently by parties across the EU, which is important to recognize for parties that seek to work together in transnational party groups, and for scholars that aim to understand EU policy making.

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Euroscepticism in Italy from the Onset of the Crisis: Tired of Europe?

Cited by 30 publications

References 42 publications

After the Storm: Party Systems in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Eurocrisis

After the Storm: Party Systems in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Eurocrisis

How the European Union responded to populism and its implications for public sector reforms

Party competition over EU integration: asymmetrical impacts of external shocks across regions?

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