The EU and Territorial Politics Within Member States: Conflict Or Co-Operation?Angela K. Bourne "The EU and Territorial Politics Within Member States" examines whether European integration helps or hinders the resolution of domestic territorial conflicts, including conflict between national groups, between territorially-based political parties or communities and different levels of political authority. The research draws on a wide range of case studies - from Germany, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Ireland and Italy. The studies suggest EU institutional rules altering the balance of power between central and regional elites (as in Germany) and/or different national elites (as in Spain) and particular EU policies, such as enlargement in Cyprus and EU anti-terrorism policy in Spain, may create new or aggravate existing tensions within member states. However, the same EU institutional rules in different states (such as Belgium) and different policies, such as cross-border programmes in Ireland may have the opposite effect. Similarly, opportunities for re-imagining territorial identities and redefining ambitions for control over territories may in some ways help the search for means to accommodate conflicts, while in others they may help entrench territorial cleavages or reproduce old tensions. |
Contents
The Europeanisation of Intergovernmental Cooperation and Conflict | 14 |
European Integration and IntraState Relations in Germany and | 51 |
The Case of Catalonia | 79 |
European Integration and Conflict Resolution in the Basque Country | 101 |
British and Irish Conceptions | 127 |
and CrossBorder Cooperation in the Island of Ireland | 157 |
Changing Allegiances in | 185 |
The Politics of the Northern League and Italys Changing Attitude Towards | 211 |
Conclusion | 231 |
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actors agricultural policy argued Assembly autonomous communities Basque Country Belgian Belgium Border Corridor Bossi British and Irish Brussels Catalan Catalonia central government co-ordination Commission competencies concept conflict constitutional context Council of Ministers cross-border co-operation cultural Cypriots Cyprus de-federalisation debate decentralisation decision-making democratic devolution devolved domestic economic election elites EU’s Europe European integration European level European policy formulation European Union Europeanisation exclusive federal government Flanders framework Friday Agreement German groups Ibid identity impact influence institutions INTERREG INTERREG III Irish border issue Italian Italy Keating Länder League's legislative Minority Nationalism mobilisation multi-level governance negotiations networks Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Assembly Northern Irish Northern League Padania partnership Plaid Cymru policy areas policy-making political parties politicians pro-European programme reform relations representation Republic of Ireland role Scotland sovereignty Spain Spanish strategy Structural Funds Studies sub-national Taoiseach tensions territorial politics tion unionist Wales Wallonia Welsh