North Macedonia: The Name in Exchange for European Union Membership?
North Macedonia is, in all probability, the poster country for the reluctant enlargement policy by the European Union (EU) towards the Western Balkan (WB). Due to a concoction of internal and external issues, over the past years the country was left stand
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VIEWS FROM THE CAPITALS
Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe
Michael Kaeding • Johannes Pollak Paul Schmidt Editors
Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe Views from the Capitals
Editors Michael Kaeding University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany
Johannes Pollak Webster Vienna Private University Vienna, Austria
Paul Schmidt Austrian Society for European Politics (ÖGfE) Vienna, Austria
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Foreword
In May 2019, over 200 million Europeans elected 751 Members of European Parliament. With more than 50 percent, the turnout was the highest it has ever been in the past 25 years and represents an increase of 8.3 percentage points from the previous election in 2014. To illustrate, more citizens were entitled to vote at the European elections than the United States has inhabitants as a whole. In contrast to certain predictions made by political commentators and spectators, the election result gives a clear pro-European mandate for more European engagement, more European solutions and more cooperation on a European level. Citizens voted because they want to see Europe taking action on a r
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