Movements on the Right and Left have long contested EU politics and policy choices. By analysing public opinion data and the positions of right- and left-wing movements, the article highlights increasing criticism of European integration on the Right, and a persistent critical vision on the Left which challenges the content of EU policies rather than the existence of a European polity. Far-Right movements have moved from Euroscepticism to radical EU-refusal, while the Left has remained anchored in critical Europeanism. We present how these debates are linked with public opinion before looking in some depth at frames in Left and far-Right social movements. We then reflect on how these frames have targeted or reconfigured the meanings attributed to EU responsibility. While addressing how social movements voice and bring citizens’ opinions into the policy-making process (responsiveness), our research illustrates the contested nature and construction of the idea of ‘responsible government’. We find a clear line of demarcation between the Left and the Right concerning the legitimate territorial scale of the EU’s responsibility: while the Left calls for responsibility to expand beyond the continent to the global scale, the Right criticises the intrusion of the EU into national policy making as illegitimate.

Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises / della Porta, Donatella; Parks, Louisa; Portos, Martin. - In: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY. - ISSN 1466-4429. - 2024:(2024). [10.1080/13501763.2024.2309196]

Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises

della Porta, Donatella
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Parks, Louisa
Secondo
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2024-01-01

Abstract

Movements on the Right and Left have long contested EU politics and policy choices. By analysing public opinion data and the positions of right- and left-wing movements, the article highlights increasing criticism of European integration on the Right, and a persistent critical vision on the Left which challenges the content of EU policies rather than the existence of a European polity. Far-Right movements have moved from Euroscepticism to radical EU-refusal, while the Left has remained anchored in critical Europeanism. We present how these debates are linked with public opinion before looking in some depth at frames in Left and far-Right social movements. We then reflect on how these frames have targeted or reconfigured the meanings attributed to EU responsibility. While addressing how social movements voice and bring citizens’ opinions into the policy-making process (responsiveness), our research illustrates the contested nature and construction of the idea of ‘responsible government’. We find a clear line of demarcation between the Left and the Right concerning the legitimate territorial scale of the EU’s responsibility: while the Left calls for responsibility to expand beyond the continent to the global scale, the Right criticises the intrusion of the EU into national policy making as illegitimate.
2024
della Porta, Donatella; Parks, Louisa; Portos, Martin
Social movements and Europeanisation: framing ‘responsibility’ and ‘responsiveness’ in times of multiple crises / della Porta, Donatella; Parks, Louisa; Portos, Martin. - In: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY. - ISSN 1466-4429. - 2024:(2024). [10.1080/13501763.2024.2309196]
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