Essays about: "Ellinor Evain"

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  1. 1. United States of Europe: Desired State for the European Union or Federalistic Utopia?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Ellinor Evain; [2013]
    Keywords : federalism; United States of Europe; ethnosymbolism; banal nationalism; Front National; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Due to the current return of federal aspirations among European politicians in relation to the current economic crisis and integration dead end, this thesis is interested in examining if the United States of Europe, meaning a federal union of the Member States of the European Union (EU), would be a desired state of integration or if it is still a federalistic utopia. Using the theoretical approach of federalism in combination with Critical Discourse Analysis we have analysed discourses by José Manuel Barroso and Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Guy Verhofstadt (prominent EU politicians) in an attempt to understand why the United States of Europe would be the necessary and most beneficial step to take in future integration processes. READ MORE