2/ I have my own thoughts on where Euroscepticism (in the UK, Euro-hostility) comes from, but this adds some nuance. Lived experience matters, and interpretation isn't simple: what looks like trust in the EU may be resigned dependence. Well worth a read: doi.org/10.1080/2162...
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Last-resort Europe in rural Italy: territorial vulnerability and conditional delegation of EU competencies
In Italy’s structurally fragile rural peripheries, citizens do not simply reject the European Union (EU); in the most vulnerable of these territories, they exhibit what we term ‘last – resort suppo...