The Impact of Brexit on the European Parliament: The Role of British MEPs in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs

Völkel, Jan Claudius

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-06043-5_11

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“…Taking into account oppositions between trade unions and employers' associations is not enough to explain the alignment of MEPs and interest groups as regards market-correcting policies. Attention must also be paid not only to the political context (Völkel, 2019), but also to the specific nature of sectoral issues and the intermediation logic between regional, national and European levels. Our findings also have larger implications for studying European parliamentary roles by linking data on MEPs' political careers, within or outside the EP, with the content of their legislative speeches or written questions.…”

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“…Lastly, parliamentary studies are enlightening in analysing how these national and sectoral interests are represented. Based on Searing's work (1994), several typologies of "parliamentary roles" cover all MEPs (Navarro, 2012) or focus on first-timers (Bale & Taggart, 2006), eurosceptics (Brack, 2012) or British MEPs during their last tenure in the EP in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs (Völkel, 2019). Most of studies agree to distinguish the "public orator" from the "specialist" of a policy area, or the "broker" of a population or an interest group.…”

Section: Representing Socio-economic Interests In the European Parlia...mentioning

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An ‘East-West split’ about the posting of workers? Questioning the representation of socio-economic interests in the European Parliament

Michon

Weill

2022

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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Our paper addresses the representation of territorialized and conflicting interests by the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) through a case study on the posting of workers.Public debates on the reforms to the legal framework for this controversial practice have been steadily increasing since the EU's eastward enlargement. Focusing on parliamentary questions, our mixed-methods research design analyses why and how MEPs take position on this highly divisive issue, beyond their nationality and a so-called opposition between Eastern and Western EU member states. MEPs' implication depends both on the impact that the posting of workers has on employment in their home country and on their own political career, including whether they hold national or local electoral mandates. These factors also determine which political roles are performed by MEPs (moral entrepreneur, policy maker, interest groups broker), as the textual analysis of their questions in Parliament highlights. These results emphasize the influence of parliamentary socialization on the positions taken in the debates about social Europe, but also the significance of the territorial dimension of parliamentary representation.

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An ‘East-West split’ about the posting of workers? Questioning the representation of socio-economic interests in the European Parliament

Michon

Weill

2022

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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“…Individual MEPs' parliamentary roles may vary greatly and are shaped by the political group and national party delegation. For example, of UK MEPs, UKIP MEPs were more likely to be Public Orato; and Greens/EFA UK MEPs were more likely to be Participants (Völkel, 2019).…”

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Eternal Friends or Jubilant Brexiteers? The Impact of Brexit on UK MEPs' Parliamentary Work in the European Parliament

Kantola

Miller

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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The aim of this article is to analyse the impact of Brexit on UK MEPs' parliamentary work in the European Parliament. The UK MEPs enjoyed full rights of MEPs, yet Brexit made their terms short and fixed. Furthermore, the Brexit process constituted a highly emotionally charged moment for politicians' parliamentary work. The article is based on a unique dataset of 130 MEP and political staff interviews and a parliamentary ethnography conducted in Brussels and Strasbourg in 2018-2020 at the time of Brexit. The empirical findings include the identification of four ways that MEPs and staff constructed the work of the outgoing UK MEPs: The Full MEP; The Scrupulous Brexit Scrutineer; The Eternal Friend; and The Jubilant Brexiteer. The empirical analysis provides a rich and nuanced account of the UK MEPs' parliamentary work differentiated by their political party and political group background.

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“…While the previous studies shed light on the impact of Brexit on the Turkey-EU relationship (Alpan 2019;Burak 2019;Ker-Lindsay 2018;Völkel 2019), the ways in which British Turks engaged with the Islamophobic and xenophobic dimensions of the Leave campaign are far lacking. The only exception to this is the PhD thesis of Babacan (2021), who addressed how some individuals reacted to the anti-Turkish rhetoric of the Vote Leave Campaign during Brexit by reinforcing their ethnic identity.…”

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Brexit’s Illusion: Decoding Islamophobia and Othering in Turkey’s EU Accession Discourse among British Turks

Onay

2024

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The warnings about Turkey’s not-so-near accession to the EU are explored as a strategic tool in the Brexit campaign, linking concerns about sovereignty and immigration compounded with the anxieties surrounding Islam and the threat of terrorism. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism and the unique perspectives gathered from British Turks, this paper sheds light on their nuanced responses. It uncovers strategies of disbelief and denial in the face of the constructed narrative that portrayed Turkey as an undesirable ‘Other’ with its predominantly Muslim population. A closer analysis of some British Turks’ narratives is premised not only on the sacralised defence of the principles of Turkish westernisation but also on the socio-political reputation of the Islamic Ottoman past as almighty. The article equally contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between British national identity and discourses surrounding immigration, sovereignty, and Islamophobia within the context of Brexit, as well as the principles by which the privileges of modern, secular Turkey, as well as the demise of the mighty Ottoman image, are maintained. In a paradoxical manner, the act of denial only serves to affirm the Brexit campaign’s narrative depicting Turkey as an undesirable ‘Other’ with a predominantly Muslim demographic.

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The Impact of Brexit on the European Parliament: The Role of British MEPs in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

An ‘East-West split’ about the posting of workers? Questioning the representation of socio-economic interests in the European Parliament

An ‘East-West split’ about the posting of workers? Questioning the representation of socio-economic interests in the European Parliament

Eternal Friends or Jubilant Brexiteers? The Impact of Brexit on UK MEPs' Parliamentary Work in the European Parliament

Brexit’s Illusion: Decoding Islamophobia and Othering in Turkey’s EU Accession Discourse among British Turks

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