Agording the news, there is a big protest against EU in the Lissabon. Also the Brits are there requesting for a referendum – but most of 150k+ persons are saying EU should be more social. This is criticism against EU (clearly) but they aren’t secptical – they want to extend the EU’s power. But this [...]
Category Archives: Perspectives on EU-Criticism
Using blog as learning tool
16.10.2007 – 20:11
Well, it’s the end of the course. Time to sum up what I learned of using a blog. It requires time – blog is not an easy way to get out of jobs. Good blogpost in my opinion should have some issues that the author brings up for discussion. There should be more than text; [...]
Fear – root cause of anti-integration?
15.10.2007 – 18:35
Well, last week I tought that there are two main reasons why euroscepticism arise: economical issues and some sort of generic fear. Let’s try to take a deeper look in the sense of research. In article Opposition to European integration and fear of loss of national identity: Debunking a basic assumption regarding hostility to the [...]
EU-criticism in the European Parliament
14.10.2007 – 14:58
I viewed the list of parties and consider following parties EU critical: ITS ID GUE/NGL It’s hard to define party as pro-eu / anti-eu as there all ways is some disagreement in politics. But, what does these parties want? Some want a more advantage EU, like GUE/NGL: “For us, Europe can, and must be, about [...]
Example 4: Propaganda about propaganda
13.10.2007 – 23:35
I met this interesting web material about the criticism of EU propaganda (that was also part of one lecture of us). I’ll first show just an interesting example what is the marketing of EU before I continue to describe what I have seen. (Sorry for providing only a link: some issues with the WordPress.) They [...]
Example 3: EU in political parties, part II
13.10.2007 – 22:32
Well, now I shall have a quick look into UK and it’s EU policy. I started my quest by visiting the Freedom Association to see what they are thinking about this issue – and what arguments do they use. It seems their main goal is as follows: I continue to surf around and find link [...]
EU criticism?
12.10.2007 – 22:09
I notice today while doing some “missed the lecture”-taskes that the word we have choose and I used is a difficult one: there might be to types of criticism of EU: Eurocriticism, thouse who want don’t like EU at all This can be further fragmemented to soft and hard EU critics Pro-european, thouse who want [...]
Example 3: EU in political parties, part I
12.10.2007 – 21:41
As a Finn, it’s easier to speak first about Finnish party, Perussuomalaiset for example. It’s interesting example, since it’s tiny party but it still have lot’s of media publicity. This is also interesting form of EU criticism, since the party usually blames EU for all most everything. As the figures show, quite many likes the [...]
From the news: Mr. Stubb says something about EU regulations in flights
11.10.2007 – 21:32
Background: Due to war against terrorism EU has tighten it’s regulations on the things you can bring with you into the airplane: maximum of 1dl bottles in a plastic bag. This came alive 2006, as presented in the press release by the Commission. Notice: I was reading “bluewings” magazine, October 2007 (published by Sanoma Magazines [...]
Example 2: Riots
9.10.2007 – 13:45
The example 1 was about quite mild sort euro criticism. Let’s cover now the hard core part, I choose some of the riots that are usual around EU meetings. Some YouTube videos to show what has happened: Video 1 Video 2 (note that these videos are not neutral in any sense – but these stories [...]