The popular relationship to the EU seems to alternate between rage and apathy. The last three decades have also been punctuated by huge periodic explosions. In 2005 Dutch voters came out in huge numbers to defeat a draft constitutional treaty. And then in 2016 of course the vote for Brexit. Does the European Union have a demos or a people? How do people experience the EU as a governing force in their lives?
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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