Euroskepticism
Doubting continental integration
Euroskepticism is opposition to or doubt about European political and economic integration, particularly the European Union.
British Euroskeptics argued for Brexit; elsewhere the term covers a spectrum from wanting to reform EU institutions to rejecting supranational governance entirely.
A Euroskeptic holds such views.
Also spelled Euroscepticism.
Supreme independent authority
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- BrexitUK leaving European Union
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
- populismPolitics favoring ordinary citizens
anti-federalism · UKIP · withdrawal · opt-out · veto · national interest · repatriation · subsidiarity
Opposition to worldwide economic integration
- localismPreference for nearby things
- traditionalismAdherence to inherited customs
- cultural preservationProtecting community traditions and artifacts
- national identityShared sense of nationhood
immigration control · borders · self-determination · supranationalism · Brussels · bureaucracy · technocracy · elitism
Monetary union sharing currency
- single currencyShared monetary unit
- bailoutEmergency aid preventing bankruptcy
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- GrexitWithdrawal from monetary bloc
monetary policy · debt crisis · troika · devaluation · trade deficit · rebate · customs union · protectionism
Formal commands or instructions
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- LisbonPortugal's largest city
- MaastrichtDutch border city
- unelectedNot chosen by voters
accountability · transparency · reform · renegotiation · overreach · red tape · harmonization
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- BrexitUK leaving European Union
- referendumDirect vote on legislation
populism · anti-federalism · UKIP · withdrawal · opt-out · veto · national interest · repatriation · subsidiarity
anti-globalization
Opposition to worldwide economic integration
- localismPreference for nearby things
- traditionalismAdherence to inherited customs
- cultural preservationProtecting community traditions and artifacts
national identity · immigration control · borders · self-determination · supranationalism · Brussels · bureaucracy · technocracy · elitism · grassroots
eurozone
Monetary union sharing currency
- single currencyShared monetary unit
- bailoutEmergency aid preventing bankruptcy
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
Grexit · monetary policy · debt crisis · troika · devaluation · trade deficit · rebate · customs union · protectionism · convergence
directives
Formal commands or instructions
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- LisbonPortugal's largest city
- MaastrichtDutch border city
unelected · accountability · transparency · reform · renegotiation · overreach · red tape · harmonization
- populismpopulism, demagogue, demagoguery, anti-elitism, anti-establishment
- Post-Cold War EuropeBerlin Wall, German reunification, Soviet collapse, Velvet Revolution, reunification
- nationalismpatriotism, national pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols
- Post-Communist Transitiondemocratization, liberalization, free market, free elections, market economy
Euroscepticism, Europe, European, Europeans, Europeanization, skeptic, skeptics, skeptical, skeptically