евроскептицизм

Эта статья посвящена оппозиции или скептицизму в отношении Европейского Союза. О негативных настроениях по отношению к людям европейского происхождения см. «Антиевропеизм» .

Общественное мнение о Евросоюзе в 2022 году

Евроскептицизм , также пишется как евроскептицизм или ЕС-скептицизм . — это политическая позиция, включающая критику Европейского Союза (ЕС) и европейской интеграции . Он варьируется от тех, кто выступает против некоторых институтов и политики ЕС и стремится к реформам ( еврореализм , еврокритический или мягкий евроскептицизм ), до тех, кто выступает против членства в ЕС и считает ЕС нереформируемым ( антиевропейский юнионизм , антиевразизм или жесткий евроскептицизм). ). Противоположность евроскептицизму известна как проевропеизм или европейский юнионизм .

Основными движущими силами евроскептицизма были убеждения в том, что интеграция подрывает национальный суверенитет и национальное государство . что ЕС является элитарным и ему не хватает демократической легитимности и прозрачности , что это слишком бюрократично и расточительно, что это поощряет высокий уровень иммиграции , или представления о том, что это неолиберальная организация, обслуживающая элиту крупного бизнеса за счет рабочего класса , что оно несет ответственность за политику жесткой экономии , и стимулирует приватизацию .

Евроскептицизм встречается в группах всего политического спектра , как левых, так и правых , и часто встречается в популистских партиях. Хотя они критикуют ЕС по многим из тех же причин, левые популисты- евроскептики больше внимания уделяют экономическим вопросам, таким как европейский долговой кризис и Трансатлантическое торговое и инвестиционное партнерство . в то время как евроскептические правые популисты больше внимания уделяют национализму и иммиграции, таким как европейский миграционный кризис 2015 года . Рост числа радикально правых партий с 2000-х годов тесно связан с ростом евроскептицизма.

Опросы граждан ЕС, проведенные Евробарометром, показывают, что доверие к ЕС и его институтам сильно упало с 2007 по 2015 год. В тот период он постоянно был ниже 50%. Опрос 2009 года показал, что наименьшая поддержка членства в ЕС была в Великобритании (Великобритании), Латвии и Венгрии . К 2016 году странами, которые наиболее негативно относились к ЕС, были Великобритания, Греция , Франция и Испания . На референдуме о членстве Соединенного Королевства в Европейском Союзе в 2016 году 51,9% проголосовали за выход из ЕС ( Брексит ), решение, которое вступило в силу 31 января 2020 года.

С 2015 года доверие к ЕС выросло в большинстве стран ЕС в результате снижения уровня безработицы и окончания миграционного кризиса. Опрос Евробарометра, проведенный после выборов 2019 года, показал, что 68% граждан поддерживают ЕС, что является самым высоким уровнем с 1983 года; однако мнение, что дела в ЕС идут не в правильном направлении, возросло до 50%. Доверие к ЕС значительно возросло в начале пандемии COVID-19, причем его уровни различались в зависимости от государств-членов.

Рассуждение

К основным причинам евроскептицизма относятся убеждения, что:

• интеграция подрывает национальный суверенитет и национальное государство ;
• ЕС является элитарным и ему не хватает демократической легитимности и прозрачности ;
• ЕС слишком бюрократичен и расточителен;
• оно поощряет высокий уровень иммиграции ;
• это неолиберальная организация, обслуживающая элиту крупного бизнеса за счет рабочего класса.
• ЕС несет ответственность за меры жесткой экономии ;
• ЕС несет ответственность за проведение приватизации .

Терминология

Можно считать, что существует несколько различных типов евроскептической мысли, которые различаются по степени, в которой их приверженцы отвергают интеграцию между государствами-членами ЕС, и по причинам, по которым они это делают. Алекс Щербяк и Пол Таггарт описали два из них как «жесткий» и «мягкий» евроскептицизм. В то же время некоторые ученые отмечают, что не существует четкой границы между предполагаемым жестким и мягким евроскептицизмом. Кас Мудде и Петр Копецки заявили, что если демаркационной линией является количество и политика, против которой выступает партия, то возникает вопрос о том, скольким партиям должна противостоять и против каких из них партия должна выступать, что делает их жесткими евроскептиками, а не мягкими.

Жесткий евроскептицизм

Флаг «ЕССР» — распространенный образ среди крайне правых евроскептиков, которые стремятся сравнивать Европейский Союз с Советским Союзом .

По мнению Таггарта и Щербяка, жёсткий евроскептицизм, или антиевропейство, является «принципиальной оппозицией ЕС и европейской интеграции, и поэтому ее можно увидеть в партиях, которые считают, что их страны должны выйти из членства, или чья политика в отношении ЕС равносильна противостоянию всему проекту европейской интеграции, как это происходит в настоящее время». задумано». Группа «Европа свободы и прямой демократии» в Европейском парламенте (2014–2019 гг.) проявляла жёсткий евроскептицизм, но после выборов в ЕС в 2019 г. группа была расформирована из-за слишком малого числа членов, поскольку её крупнейший член, Британская партия Брексита , вышла из состава партии раньше Официальный выход Соединенного Королевства из ЕС.

Некоторые жесткие евроскептики считают свою позицию скорее прагматичной, чем принципиальной. Кроме того, Тони Бенн , член парламента от левой Лейбористской партии , который боролся против европейской интеграции в 1975 году, выступая против членства в Европейских сообществах на референдуме по этому вопросу в том году , подчеркнул свое неприятие ксенофобии и поддержку демократии , заявив: «Моя точка зрения насчет Евросоюза всегда было не то, что я враждебен к иностранцам, а то, что я за демократию... Я думаю, они там строят империю, они хотят, чтобы мы были частью их империи, а я нет. Я не хочу этого».

Президент Чехии Вацлав Клаус отверг термин «евроскептицизм» из-за его предполагаемого негативного подтекста, заявив на встрече в апреле 2012 года, что выражениями для евроскептиков и их оппонентов должны быть «еврореалист» и «евронивист» соответственно. . Франсуа Асселино из Французского народно-республиканского союза раскритиковал использование термина «скептик» для описания жестких евроскептиков и скорее выступает за использование термина «противник евро». Он считает правильным использование термина «скептик» для мягких евроскептиков, поскольку другие партии евроскептиков во Франции «просто критикуют» ЕС, не принимая во внимание тот факт, что Римский договор может быть изменен только с единогласного согласия все страны-члены ЕС, чего он считает невозможным.

Мягкий евроскептицизм

Мягкий евроскептицизм отражает поддержку существования и членства в какой-либо форме ЕС, но с противодействием конкретной политике ЕС, или, по словам Таггарта и Щербяка, «там, где НЕ существует принципиальных возражений против европейской интеграции или членства в ЕС, но когда речь идет о в одной (или нескольких) областях политики приводят к выражению квалифицированной оппозиции ЕС или когда возникает ощущение, что «национальные интересы» в настоящее время расходятся с траекторией движения ЕС».

И группа европейских консерваторов и реформистов , в которой доминирует правая польская партия «Право и справедливость» , и « Европейские объединенные левые – нордические зеленые левые» , представляющие собой альянс левых партий в Европейском парламенте, демонстрируют мягкий евроскептицизм. Группа европейских консерваторов и реформистов сама не использует определения евроскептицизма или мягкого евроскептицизма, а вместо этого описывает свою позицию как позицию еврореализма, различие, которое Лерут описывает как «довольно тонкое, но его не следует игнорировать», учитывая ассоциацию термин евроскептицизм с «европейским распадом». Лерут описывает еврореализм как «прагматичное, антифедералистское и гибкое видение европейской интеграции, в котором преобладает принцип субсидиарности, направленное на реформирование нынешней институциональной структуры для расширения роли национальных парламентов в процессе принятия решений». Стивен заявляет, что «еврореализм - это, прежде всего, форма консерватизма, а не форма евроскептицизма, даже если он, очевидно, также имеет «мягкие» евроскептические тенденции, которые присутствуют в ряде партий-членов ECR».

Антиевропеизм

Основная статья: Антиевропеизм

Несмотря на некоторые совпадения, евроскептицизм и антиевропеизм различны. Евроскептицизм – это критика Европейского Союза (ЕС) и европейской интеграции . Антиевропеизм – это настроения или политика, направленные против Европы . Например, американская исключительность в США уже давно привела к критике европейской внутренней политики . такие как размер государства всеобщего благосостояния в европейских странах, и внешняя политика , например, европейские страны, которые не поддержали вторжение в Ирак в 2003 году под руководством США .

Other terms

Some scholars consider the gradual difference in terminology between hard and soft Euroscepticism inadequate to accommodate the large differences in terms of political agenda; hard Euroscepticism has also been referred to as Europhobia as opposed to mere Euroscepticism. Other alternative names for hard and soft Euroscepticism include withdrawalist and reformist, respectively.

Eurobarometer surveys

From the Eurobarometer 2023 poll, to the question "Taking everything into account, would you say that [OUR COUNTRY] has on balance benefited or not from being a member of the EU?", the interviewed answered "Benefited" with the following percentages:

  91–100%

  81–90%

  71–80%

  61–70%

  51–60%

A survey in November 2015, conducted by TNS Opinion and Social on behalf of the European Commission, showed that, across the EU as a whole, those with a positive image of the EU were down from a high of 52% in 2007 to 37% in autumn 2015; this compares with 23% with a negative image of the EU, and 38% with a neutral image. About 43% of Europeans thought things were "going in the wrong direction" in the EU, compared with 23% who thought things were going "in the right direction" (11% "don't know"). About 32% of EU citizens tend to trust the EU as an institution, and about 55% do not tend to trust it (13% "don't know"). Distrust of the EU was highest in Greece (81%), Cyprus (72%), Austria (65%), France (65%), the United Kingdom (UK) and the Czech Republic (both 63%). Overall, more respondents distrusted their own government (66%) than they distrusted the EU (55%). Distrust of national government was highest in Greece (82%), Slovenia (80%), Portugal (79%), Cyprus (76%), and France (76%).

A Eurobarometer survey carried out four days prior to and six days after the 2016 United States presidential election revealed that the surprise victory of Donald Trump caused an increase in the popularity of the EU in Europe. The increase was strongest among the political right and among respondents who perceived their country as economically struggling.

A survey carried out in April 2018 for the European Parliament by Kantar Public consulting found that support for the EU was "the highest score ever measured since 1983". Support for the EU was up in 26 out of 28 EU countries, the exceptions being Germany and the UK, where support had dropped by about 2% since the previous survey. Almost half (48%) of the 27,601 EU citizens surveyed agreed that their voice counted in the EU, up from 37% in 2016, whereas 46% disagreed with this statement. Two-thirds (67%) of respondents felt that their country had benefited from EU membership and 60% said that being part of the bloc was a good thing, as opposed to 12% who felt the opposite. At the height of the EU's financial and economic crises in 2011, just 47% had been of the view that EU membership was a good thing. Support for EU membership was greatest in Malta (93%), Ireland (91%), Lithuania (90%), Poland (88%), Luxembourg (88%), Estonia (86%), and Denmark (84%), and lowest in Greece (57%), Bulgaria (57%), Cyprus (56%), Austria (54%), the United Kingdom (53%), and Italy (44%).

When asked which issues should be a priority for the European Parliament, survey respondents picked terrorism as the most pressing topic of discussion, ahead of youth unemployment and immigration. Not all countries shared the same priorities. Immigration topped the list in Italy (66% of citizens surveyed considered it a priority issue), Malta (65%), and Hungary (62%) but fighting youth unemployment and support for economic growth were top concerns in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, and Croatia. Social protection of citizens was the top concern for Dutch, Swedish, and Danish respondents.

The April 2019 Eurobarometer showed that despite the challenges of the past years, and in cases such as the ongoing debate surrounding Brexit, possibly even because of it, the European sense of togetherness had not weakened, with 68% of respondents across the EU27 believing that their countries have benefited from being part of the EU, a historically high level since 1983. On the other hand, more Europeans (27%) were uncertain and saw the EU as "neither a good thing nor a bad thing", an increase in 19 countries. Despite the overall positive attitude towards the EU but in line with the uncertainty expressed by a growing number of Europeans, the feeling that things were not going in the right direction in both the EU and in their own countries had increased to 50% on EU average since September 2018.

The Eurobarometer 93.1 survey was in the field across Europe when the European Council summit reached political agreement on a pandemic economic recovery fund (later named Next Generation EU) on 21 July 2020. A comparison of Eurobarometer responses gathered before this seminal decision and interviews conducted shortly thereafter indicates that the European Council's endorsement of pandemic economic relief increased popular support of COVID-19 economic recovery aid - but only among Europeans who view EU decisionmakers as trustworthy.

History in the European Parliament

1999–2004

A study analysed voting records of the Fifth European Parliament and ranked groups, concluding: "Towards the top of the figure are the more pro-European parties (PES, EPP-ED, and ALDE), whereas towards the bottom of the figure are the more anti-European parties (EUL/NGL, G/EFA, UEN and EDD)."

2004–2009

In 2004, 37 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the UK, Poland, Denmark and Sweden founded a new European Parliament group called "Independence and Democracy" from the old Europe of Democracies and Diversities (EDD) group.

The main goal of the ID group was to reject the proposed Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe. Some delegations within the group, notably that from UKIP, also advocated the complete withdrawal of their country from the EU, while others only wished to limit further European integration.

2009 elections

The elections of 2009 saw a significant fall in support in some areas for Eurosceptic parties, with all such MEPs from Poland, Denmark and Sweden losing their seats. In the UK, the Eurosceptic UKIP achieved second place in the election, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party (BNP) won its first-ever two MEPs. Although new members joined the ID group from Greece and the Netherlands, it was unclear whether the group would reform in the new parliament.

The ID group did reform, as the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) and is represented by 32 MEPs from nine countries.

2014 elections

The elections of 2014 saw a big anti-establishment vote in favour of Eurosceptic parties, which took around a quarter of the seats available. Those that came first their national elections included: UKIP in the UK (the first time since 1906 that a party other than Labour or the Conservatives had won a national vote), the National Front in France, the People's Party in Denmark and Syriza in Greece. Second places were taken by Sinn Féin in Ireland and the Five Star Movement in Italy. Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, agreed following the election to re-evaluate the economic area's agenda and to launch consultations on future policy areas with the 28 member states.

2019 elections

The elections of 2019 saw the centre-left and centre-right parties suffer significant losses including losing their overall majority, while green, pro-EU liberal, and some Eurosceptic right wing parties saw significant gains. Those that came first in their national elections included: the Brexit Party in the UK (which was only launched on 12 April 2019 by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage), the National Rally of France (formerly the National Front party until June 2018), Fidesz in Hungary, Lega in Italy, and Law and Justice in Poland. There were also notable falls in support for the Danish People's Party (previously topped the 2014 European election). Whilst Vox got elected with 3 seats, Spain's first Eurosceptic party and Belgium's Vlaams Belang rallied to gain second place after its poor 2014 result.

2024 elections

In the elections of 2024, 24 EU countries elected at least one member of a Eurosceptic group (European Conservatives and Reformists, Patriots for Europe or Europe of Sovereign Nations). The three exceptions were Ireland, Malta and Slovenia.

In EU member states

See also: 2015 European migrant crisis

Austria

Heinz-Christian Strache, former leader of the Austrian hard Eurosceptic party FPÖ

The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), established in 1956, is a right-wing populist party that mainly attracts support from young people and workers. In 1989, it changed its stance over the EU to Euroscepticism. It opposed Austria joining the EU in 1994, and opposed the introduction of the euro in 1998. The party would like to leave the EU if it threatens to develop into a country, or if Turkey joins. The FPÖ received 20–27% of the national vote in the 1990s, and more recently received 18% in 2008. Following the 2017 Austrian legislative election, it has 51/183 National Council seats, 16/62 Federal Council seats, and 4/19 European Parliament seats.

The Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ), established in 2005, is a socially conservative party that has always held Eurosceptic elements. In 2011 the party openly supported leaving the eurozone, and in 2012 it announced that it supported a full withdrawal from the European Union. The party has also called upon a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. In polls it generally received around 10–15%, although in one state it did receive 45% of the vote in 2009. Since the 2017 election, it has 0/183 National Council seats, 0/62 Federal Council seats, and 0/19 European Parliament seats.

Team Stronach, established in 2012, has campaigned to reform the European Union, as well as to replace the euro with an Austrian Euro. In 2012, it regularly received 8–10% support in national polls. Politicians from many different parties (including the Social Democratic Party and the BZÖ) as well as previous independents switched their allegiances to the new party upon creation. In two local elections in March 2013, it won 11% of the vote in Carinthia, and 10% of the vote in Lower Austria. It dissolved in 2017.

Ewald Stadler, a former member of FPÖ (and later of BZÖ) was very Eurosceptic, but in 2011 became a member of the European Parliament due to the Lisbon Treaty. Before Stadler accepted the seat, this led to heavy critics by Jörg Leichtfried (SPÖ) "Stadler wants to just rescue his political career" because Stadler before mentioned he would never accept a seat as MEP if this was only due to the Lisbon Treaty. On 23 December 2013 he founded a conservative and Eurosceptic party called The Reform Conservatives, although it has been inactive since June 2016.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the FPÖ increased its vote to 19.7% (up 7.0%), gaining 2 new MEPs, making a total of 4; the party came third, behind the ÖVP and the SPÖ. EU-STOP (the electoral alliance of the EU Withdrawal Party and the Neutral Free Austria Federation) polled 2.8%, gaining no seats, and the Reform Conservatives 1.2%, with Team Stronach putting up no candidates.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, the FPÖ came 3rd with 17.2% of the vote which was only slightly down on 2014 despite a scandal allegedly promising public contracts to a woman posing as a Russian backer. This precipitated the collapse of the ruling coalition and a new election being called.

Belgium

According to Eurostat, in the fall of 2018, 44% of Belgians stated that they did not trust the European Union. The main Eurosceptic party in Belgium is the right-wing Vlaams Belang which is active in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, however the left-wing PTB-PVDA also opposes the EU on many issues, primarily austerity and social policy. In the 2014 European Parliament election, Vlaams Belang lost over half of its previous vote share, polling 4.3% (down 5.5%) and losing 1 of its 2 members of the European Parliament. Despite the presence of Eurosceptic parties in Belgium, their weight is relatively low, as Belgium is predominantly Europeanist.

In 2019, Vlaams Belang stated in its program for the 2019 European Parliament election that it opposes the creation of a European state, would like to change the Economic and Monetary Union of the EU, and to end the Schengen Area, and refuses the accession of Turkey to the EU. More widely, the euro-sceptic arguments of the Vlaams Belang are based on four pillars:

1. loss of sovereignty (for instance on economic sovereignty or on the binding legal order);
2. the financial cost of the European Union;
3. less competences for European Union;
4. leaving the euro (even though in 2019 the party has changed its line and now wants to reform the euro). During the 2019 European Parliament election in Belgium, Vlaams Belang made substantial gains in both and polled in second place in Flemish region. At the beginning of 2019, the party was enrolled in the group of European Alliance of People and Nations in the European Parliament.

The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) is a soft Eurosceptic party in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Before 2010, the N-VA was pro-European and supported the idea of a democratic European confederation, but has since altered this policy to a more sceptical stance on further European integration and now calls for more democratic transparency within the EU, changes to the EU's common asylum policy and economic reforms to the Eurozone. The N-VA has obtained 26.8% of the votes or 4 seats of the Dutch-language college out of 12 (21 MEPs for Belgium) in the 2014 European Parliament election. In April 2019, it stood in European Conservatives and Reformists of the European Parliament, and can be considered a moderate Eurosceptic party.

In the French-speaking part of Belgium (Walloons), there are four Eurosceptic parties. The first one is Nation Movement, a far-right party which was a member of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom in the European Parliament. The second one is National Front, also a far right party which criticizes the European bureaucracy, intends to guarantee and preserve national independence and freedom in a liberated Europe; it also reaffirms the Christian roots of Europe. The third one is the People's Party, classified as right or extreme right. In its program for the European election of 2019 the People's Party proposes to abolish the European Commission, reduce the number of European parliamentarians and fight against the worker-posted directive. For this party, the EU must be led by a president elected by universal suffrage with clear but limited competences. It also wants to renegotiate the European Union treaties, restrict the judicial activism of the European Court of Human Rights. It declares itself against the Global Compact for Migration. The last one is the Parti libertarien. In early 2019, the party aims to reduce the powers of the European Commission, to abolish the Common Agricultural Policy, to abandon common defense projects, to simplify the exit procedure of the European Union, to reject federalism and to forbid the European Union to direct economic, fiscal or social policy, Finally, the Workers' Party of Belgium is an electoral and unitary party. It also intends to revise the European treaties considered too liberal. One of the Party's currencies is "The left that stings, against the Europe of money".

Bulgaria

Volen Siderov, leader of the Bulgarian Eurosceptic party Attack

European flag in Bulgaria torn down by supporters of the Eurosceptic party Attack

Parties with mainly Eurosceptic views are NFSB, Attack, and VMRO – BND, which is a member of the Eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists.Bulgaria's Minister of Finance, Simeon Djankov, stated in 2011 that ERM II membership to enter the Euro zone would be postponed until after the Eurozone crisis had stabilised.

In the 2014 European Parliament election Bulgaria remained overwhelmingly pro-EU, with the Eurosceptic Attack party receiving 3% of the vote, down 9%, with the splinter group National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria taking 3; neither party secured any MEPs. A coalition between VMRO – BND and Bulgaria Without Censorship secured an MEP position for Angel Dzhambazki from IMRO, who is a hard Eurosceptic.

Followers of Eurosceptic Attack tore down and trampled the European flag on 3 March 2016 at a meeting of the party in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, dedicated to the commemoration of the 138th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, Bulgaria remained overwhelmingly pro-EU with the ruling centre-right Gerb party winning with 31%, against 26% for the socialist BSP.

Since the 2021–2023 Bulgarian political crisis, the far-right hard Eurosceptic party Revival has outplaced Attack, with it getting 14% on the most recent 2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election.

Croatia

Parties with Eurosceptic views are mainly small right-wing parties like Croatian Party of Rights, Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević, Croatian Pure Party of Rights, Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights, Croatian Christian Democratic Party and Only Croatia – Movement for Croatia.

The only parliamentary party that is vocally Eurosceptic is the Human Shield that won 5 out of 151 seats at the 2016 parliamentary election. Their position is generally considered to waver between hard and soft Euroscepticism; it requests thorough reform of the EU so that all member states would be perfectly equal.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, the Human Shield gained its first seat in the European Parliament with 6% of the vote putting it in 5th place.

Cyprus

Parties with mainly Eurosceptic views in Cyprus are the Progressive Party of Working People and ELAM.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, there was little change politically – the conservatives won narrowly, the ruling DISY taking two seats with 29%, followed by socialist AKEL (27.5%, two seats) with no seats taken by Eurosceptic parties.

Czechia

Main article: Euroscepticism in the Czech Republic

Václav Klaus, former Eurosceptic President of the Czech Republic

In May 2010, the Czech president Václav Klaus said that they "needn't hurry to enter the Eurozone".

Petr Mach, an economist, a close associate of president Václav Klaus and a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 2007, founded the Free Citizens Party in 2009. The party aims to mainly attract dissatisfied Civic Democratic Party voters. At the time of the Lisbon Treaty ratification, they were actively campaigning against it, supported by the president Vaclav Klaus, who demanded opt-outs such as were granted to the United Kingdom and Poland, unlike the governing Civic Democratic Party, who endorsed it in the Chamber of Deputies. After the treaty has been ratified, Mach's party is in favour of withdrawing from the European Union completely. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Free Citizens Party won one mandate and allied with UKIP in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFD).

The 2017 Czech legislative election brought into Parliament one soft eurosceptic party, the centre-right Civic Democratic Party (ODS) (11%), and two hard eurosceptic parties, the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) (11%) and the left-wing to far-left Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) (8%).

An April 2016 survey by the CVVM Institute indicated that 25% of Czechs were satisfied with EU membership, down from 32% the previous year.

Dividends worth CZK 270 billion were paid to the foreign owners of Czech companies in 2017, which has become a political issue in the Czech Republic.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, the Civic Democratic Party saw its vote share rise to 15% and its seats doubled from 2 to 4. The Freedom and Direct Democracy party took 2 seats with 9% of the vote. KSČM dropped 2 seats leaving it with only one and a vote share of 7%

Denmark

Main articles: Denmark and the European Union § Euroscepticism, and Danish withdrawal from the European Union

Pia Kjærsgaard, member (and former leader) of the hard Eurosceptic party Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti), the fifth-largest represented in the Danish parliament and the fifth-most represented in the European Parliament

The People's Movement against the EU only takes part in European Parliament elections and has one member in the European Parliament. The soft Eurosceptic June Movement, originally a split-off from the People's Movement against the EU, existed from 1992 to 2009.

In the Danish Parliament, the Red-Green Alliance previously advocated withdrawal from the EU, but in March 2019, the party announced it would no longer campaign for a referendum to leave the EU, pointing to Brexit illustrating the need for clarity before withdrawal can be considered. The Danish People's Party also advocates withdrawal, but says it supports some EU structures such as the internal market, and supported the EU-positive Liberal-Conservative coalition between 2001 and 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019.

The Socialist People's Party, minorities within the Social Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party, and some smaller parties were against accession to the European Union in 1972. Still in 1986, these parties advocated a no vote in the Single European Act referendum. Later, the Social Liberal Party changed to a strongly EU-positive party, and EU opposition within the Social Democratic Party faded. The Socialist People's Party were against the Amsterdam Treaty in 1998 and Denmark's joining the euro in 2000, but has become increasingly EU-positive, for example when MEP Margrete Auken left the European United Left–Nordic Green Left and joined The Greens–European Free Alliance in 2004.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party came first by a large margin with 27% of the vote, gaining 2 extra seats for a total of 4 MEPs. The People's Movement against the EU polled 8%, retaining its single MEP.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, the Danish People's Party lost around two-thirds of their previous vote share dropping from 4 seats to just 1. The People's Movement against the EU lost their seat and the Red-Green Alliance got one seat.

The 2019 Danish general election saw the emergence of a new hard Eurosceptic party Nye Borgerlige which supports Denmark leaving the EU. The party won four seats in parliament.

Estonia

The Independence Party and Centre Party were against accession to the EU, but only the Independence Party still wants Estonia to withdraw from the EU. The Conservative People's Party (EKRE) also has some Eurosceptic policies and increased its vote share from 4% in 2014 to 13% in the 2019 European Elections winning one seat.

Finland

The largest Eurosceptic party in Finland is the Finns Party. In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Finns Party increased their vote share by 3% to 13%, adding a second MEP. With their 39 seats, the Finns Party are also the second-biggest party in the 200-seat Finnish Eduskunta.

In the European Parliament election, 2019, the Finns Party increased their vote share slightly from 13% to 14% and retained their 2 seats.

In its latest party platform written in 2019, the Finns Party is strongly opposed to further EU integration. The party proposes introducing a parallel currency within Finland in tandem with the Euro in order to phase out Finnish membership of the Eurozone and argues that while Finland is needed in the short-term in the European Parliament to defend Finland's interests, the country should also enact policies to help gradually withdraw Finland from the EU. During the 2018 Finnish presidential election, the Finns Party candidate Laura Huhtasaari stated that her campaign would support exiting the EU.

France

See also: Frexit

Marine Le Pen, prominent French MEP, former leader and former presidential candidate of the National Front (France) and of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group

In France there are multiple parties that are Eurosceptic to different degrees, varying from advocating less EU intervention in national affairs, to advocating outright withdrawal from the EU and the Eurozone. These parties belong to all sides of the political spectrum, so the reasons for their Euroscepticism may differ. In the past many French people appeared to be uninterested in such matters, with only 40% of the French electorate voting in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

Right-wing Eurosceptic parties include the Gaullist Debout la République, and Mouvement pour la France, which was part of Libertas, a pan-European Eurosceptic party. In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Debout la République received 1.8% of the national vote, and Libertas 4.8%. In a similar way to some moderate parties, the French right and far-right in general are naturally opposed to the EU, as they criticise France's loss of political and economic sovereignty to a supranational entity. Some of these hard Eurosceptic parties include the Popular Republican Union and The Patriots and formerly the Front National (FN). Popular Republican Union seek France's withdrawal from the EU and the euro as well as France's withdrawal from NATO. The FN received 33.9% of the votes in the 2017 French presidential election, making it the largest Eurosceptic party in France. In June 2018, the National Front was renamed as National Rally (RN) and in 2019 dropped support for France leaving the European Union and the Eurozone from its manifesto, instead calling for "reform from within" the union.

Eurosceptic parties on the left in France tend to criticise what they see as the neoliberal agenda of the EU, as well as the elements of its structure which are undemocratic and seen as top-down. These parties include the Parti de Gauche and the French Communist Party, which formed the Front de Gauche for the 2009 European Parliament elections and received 6.3% of the votes. The leader of the Left Front defends a complete reform of the Monetary Union, rather than the withdrawal of France from the Eurozone. Some of the major far-left Eurosceptic parties in France include the New Anticapitalist Party which received 4.8% and Lutte Ouvrière which received 1.2%. The Citizen and Republican Movement, a left-wing Eurosceptic and souverainist party, have not participated in any elections for the European Parliament.

The party Chasse, Pêche, Nature & Traditions, is an agrarianist Eurosceptic party that says it is neither left nor right.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the National Front won the elections with 24.9% of the vote, a swing of 18.6%, winning 24 seats, up from 3 previously. The former French President François Hollande had called for the EU to be reformed and for a scaling back of its power.

In the European Parliament election, 2019, the renamed National Rally won the elections with 23.3% of the vote, winning 22 seats, down from 23 previously when their vote share was 24.9%.

Germany

"Referendum on saving the euro!" Poster from the party Alternative for Germany (AfD) regarding Germany's financial contributions during the Eurozone crisis

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is Germany's largest Eurosceptic party. It was elected into the German Parliament with 94 seats in September 2017. Initially the AfD was a soft Eurosceptic party, that considered itself pro-Europe and pro-EU, but opposed the euro, which it believed had undermined European integration, and called for reforms to the Eurozone.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Alternative for Germany came 5th with 7% of the vote, winning 7 seats and is a member of the Eurosceptic European Conservatives and Reformists. The Alternative for Germany went on to take seats in three state legislatures in the Autumn of 2014.

The party became purely Eurosceptic in 2015, when an internal split occurred, leading to Frauke Petry's leadership and a more hard-line approach to the European Union, including its calling for an end for German Eurozone membership, withdrawal from EU common asylum policies and significantly reducing the power of the EU with some AfD members supporting a complete exit from the EU altogether.

In July 2015 an AfD splinter group created a new soft Eurosceptic party called Alliance for Progress and Renewal.

In the European Parliament election, 2019, the Alternative for Germany increased their vote share from 7% and 7 seats to 11% and 11 seats.

In the 2021 German Federal Election, AfD won 10.3% of the vote and 94 seats whereas in 2017, they received 12.6% of the vote and 83 seats; this meant they moved from third place to fifth place, falling behind the Green Party and FDP, both of which had been less popular than the AfD in 2017. Despite their overall electoral decline, the AfD still emerged as the largest in the states of Saxony and Thuringia, and saw a strong performance in eastern Germany.

Greece

Main articles: Greek withdrawal from the Eurozone and Greek government-debt crisis

Golden Dawn, Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Greek Solution, ANEL, Course of Freedom, Popular Unity, and LAOS have been the main Eurosceptic parties in Greece. According to the London School of Economics, Greece used to be the second most Eurosceptic country in the European Union, with 50% of Greeks thinking that their country has not benefited at all from the EU (only behind the UK). Meanwhile, 33% of Greeks viewed Greek membership in EU as a good thing, marginally ahead of the UK. 81% of Greeks felt that the EU was going in the wrong direction. These figures represented a major increase in Euroscepticism in Greece since 2009.

In June 2012, the Eurosceptic parties in Greece that were represented in the parliament before the Election in January 2015 (ANEL, Golden Dawn, KKE) got 45.8% of the votes and 40.3% of the seats in the parliament. In the legislative election of January 2015 the pro-European (left and right-wing) parties (ND, PASOK, Potami, KIDISO, EK and Prasinoi-DIMAR) got 43.3% of the votes. The Eurosceptic parties got 54.6%. The Eurosceptic left (KKE, ANTARSYA-MARS and KKE (M–L)/M–L KKE) got 42.6% of the votes and the Eurosceptic right (Golden Dawn, ANEL and LAOS) got 12.1% of the votes, with Syriza ahead with 36.3%. The Eurosceptic parties got 194 seats in the new parliament and the pro-EU parties got 106 seats.

According to the polls conducted in June and July 2015 (12 polls), the Eurosceptic left would get on average 48.0% (excluding extraparliamentary parties as ANTARSYA-MARS and KKE (m–l)/ML-KKE), the parliamentary pro-EU parties (Potami, New Democracy and PASOK) would get 33.8%, the extra-parliamentary (not represented in the Hellenic Parliament) pro-EU parties (KIDISO and EK) would get 4.4% and the Eurosceptic right would get 10.2% (excluding extraparliamentary parties, such as LAOS, not displayed on recent opinion polls). The soft Eurosceptic parties would get 42.3%, the hard Eurosceptic parties (including KKE, ANEL and Golden Dawn) would get 15.9%, and the pro-EU parties (including extra-parliamentary parties displayed on opinion polls) would get 38.3% of the votes.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, Syriza won the election with 26.6% of the vote (a swing of 21.9%) taking 6 seats (up 5), with Golden Dawn coming 3rd taking 3 seats, the Communist Party taking 2 seats and the Independent Greeks gaining their first ever seat. Syriza's leader Tsipras said he's not anti-European and does not want to leave the euro. According to The Economist, Tsipras is willing to negotiate with Greece's European partners, and it is believed a Syriza victory could encourage radical leftist parties across Europe. Alexis Tsipras vowed to reverse many of the austerity measures adopted by Greece since a series of bailouts began in 2010, at odds with the Eurogroup's positions.The government coalition in Greece was composed by Syriza and ANEL (right-wing hard Eurosceptic party, led by Panos Kammenos, who is the current Minister of Defence).

Euroscepticism has softened in Greece as the economy improved. According to a research in early 2018, 68% of Greeks judge as positive the participation of Greece in the EU (instead of 53.5% in 2017).

In the European Parliament election, 2019, the New Democracy movement, beat the ruling left-wing Syriza formation with 33.1% and 23.8% of the vote respectively, maintaining Syriza's 6 seats and prompting the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call a legislative election on 7 July 2019. In this election, which was won by ND, the pro-European parties (ND, SYRIZA, KINAL, MeRA25, and the extra-parliamentary Union of Centrists and Recreate Greece) got 84.9% of the vote and the Eurosceptic parties (KKE, Greek Solution, the extraparliamentary Golden Dawn and a host of other small mainly left-wing parties) got 15.1%. That drastic change in the balance is mostly the result of SYRIZA abandoning Euroscepticism.

Hungary

See also: Hungarian withdrawal from the European Union

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary

Viktor Orbán is the soft Eurosceptic Prime Minister of Hungary for the national-conservative Fidesz Party. Another Eurosceptic party that was present in Hungary was Jobbik, which until around 2016, was identified as a radical and far-right party. Those far-right factions, who left Jobbik, decided to form the Our Homeland Movement party.

In 2015, 39% of the Hungarian population had a positive image of the EU, 20% had a negative image, and 40% neutral (1% "Don't know").

In the 2014 Hungarian parliamentary election, Fidesz got 44.5% of the votes, Jobbik got 20.5% of the votes and the communist Hungarian Workers' Party got 0.6% of the votes. Thus at the time, Eurosceptic parties in Hungary obtained 65.7% of the votes, one of the highest figures in Europe.

The green-liberal Politics Can Be Different (Lehet Más a Politika, LMP) classifies as a soft or reformist Eurosceptic party given its self-professed euro-critical stance. During the European parliamentary campaign of 2014 party Co-president András Schiffer described LMP as having a pronounced pro-integration position on environmental, wage and labour policy as supporting member state autonomy on the self-determination of local communities concerning land resources. So as to combat the differentiated integration of the multi-speed Europe which discriminates against Eastern and Southern member states, LMP would like to initiate an eco-social market economy within the union.

In the European Parliament election, 2019, Fidesz consolidated their position by increasing their vote share to 51.5% and adding a seat to take their tally to 13. Former Eurosceptic (now pro-European) Jobbik dropped to 6.3% of the votes, losing 2 of its 3 seats. The Momentum Movement, a newly created pro-European party, came 3rd with 9.3% of the vote, with the strongly pro-European Democratic Coalition coming second with 16.1% of the vote. Our Homeland Movement got 3.3% of the votes, gaining no seats.

Ireland

Main article: Euroscepticism in the Republic of Ireland

Euroscepticism is a minority view in Ireland, with opinion polls from 2016 to 2018 indicating growing support for EU membership, moving from 70% to 92% in that time.

The Irish people initially voted against ratifying the Nice and Lisbon Treaties. Following renegotiations, second referendums on both were passed with approximately 2:1 majorities in both cases. Some commentators and smaller political groups questioned the validity of the Irish Government's decision to call second referendums.

The left-wing Irish republican party Sinn Féin expresses soft Eurosceptic positions on the current structure of the European Union and the direction in which it is moving.The party expresses, "support for Europe-wide measures that promote and enhance human rights, equality and the all-Ireland agenda", but has a "principled opposition" to a European superstate. In its manifesto for the 2015 UK general election, Sinn Féin pledged that the party would campaign for the UK to stay within the EU. In the 2019 European Parliament election, Sinn Féin won one seat and 11.7% of the vote, down 7.8%.

The Socialist Party, a Trotskyist organisation, supports Ireland leaving the EU and supported the Brexit result. It argues that the European Union is institutionally capitalist and neoliberal. The Socialist Party campaigned against the Lisbon and Nice Treaties and favours the foundation of an alternative Socialist European Union.

Italy

"Italexit" redirects here. For the political party with this name, see Italexit (political party).

The Five Star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment movement founded by comedian Beppe Grillo, originally set itself out as a Eurosceptic party. The M5S received 25.5% of vote in the 2013 general election, becoming the largest anti-establishment and Eurosceptic party in Europe. The party used to advocate a non-binding referendum on the withdrawal of Italy from the Eurozone (but not from the European Union) and the return to the lira. Since then, the party has toned down its eurosceptic rhetoric and such policy was rejected in 2018, and the M5S's leader has since stated that the "European Union is the Five Star Movement's home", clarifying that the party wants Italy to stay in the EU, even though it remains critical of some of its treaties. The M5S's popular support is distributed all across Italy: in the 2018 general election the party won 32.7% of the popular vote nationwide, and was particularly successful in central and southern Italy.

A party that retains a Eurosceptic identity is the Northern League (LN), a regionalist movement led by Matteo Salvini favouring Italy's exit from the Eurozone and the re-introduction of the lira. When in government, Lega approved the Treaty of Lisbon. The party won 6.2% of the vote in the 2014 European Parliament elections, but two of its leading members are presidents of Lombardy and Veneto (where Lega gained 40.9% of the vote in 2015).

Matteo Salvini with the Eurosceptic economists Claudio Borghi Aquilini, Alberto Bagnai and Antonio Maria Rinaldi during the No Euro Day in Milan, 2013. All economists were later elected MPs in different assemblies

In the 2014 European Parliament election the Five Star Movement came second, with 17 seats and 21.2% of the vote after contesting EP seats for the first time. Northern League had five seats and The Other Europe with Tsipras had three seats.

Other minor Eurosceptic organizations include right-wing political parties (e.g., Brothers of Italy, Tricolour Flame, New Force, National Front, CasaPound, National Movement for Sovereignty, the No Euro Movement), far-left political parties (e.g., the Communist Party of Marco Rizzo, the Italian Communist Party and the political movement Power to the People) and other political movements (e.g., the Sovereignist Front, MMT Italy). In addition, the European Union is criticized (especially for the austerity and the creation of the euro) by some left-wing thinkers, like the trade unionist Giorgio Cremaschi and the journalist Paolo Barnard, and some academics, such as Alberto Bagnai the philosopher Diego Fusaro.

According to the Standard Eurobarometer 87 conducted by the European Commission in spring 2017, 48% of Italians tend not to trust the European Union compared to 36% of Italians who do.

In the 2019 European election, the Italian Eurosceptic and souverainist right-wing, represented in large part by the League, increased its number of seats in the EP, but was not assigned any presidency in the committees of the European Parliament. Despite its national political alliance with the League during the Conte Cabinet, the Five Star Movement voted for Ursula von der Leyen, member of pro-EU Christian Democratic Union of Germany, as President of the European Commission.

In July 2020, senator Gianluigi Paragone formed Italexit, a new political party with a main goal to withdraw Italy from the European Union.

Latvia

The National Alliance (For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK/All for Latvia!), Union of Greens and Farmers and For Latvia from the Heart are parties that are described by some political commentators as bearing soft Eurosceptic views. A small hard Eurosceptic party Eurosceptic Party of Action exists, but it has failed to gain any administrative seats throughout history of its existence.

Lithuania

The Order and Justice party had mainly Eurosceptic views.

Luxembourg

The Alternative Democratic Reform Party is a soft Eurosceptic party. It is a member of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists.

Malta

The Labour Party was not in favour of Malta entering the European Union. It was in favour of a partnership with the EU. After a long battle, the Nationalist Party led by Eddie Fenech Adami won the referendum and the following election, making Malta one of the states to enter the European Union on 1 May 2004. The party is now pro-European. Nowadays the People's Party often adopts Eurosceptic views.

Netherlands

See also: Dutch withdrawal from the European Union

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, a hardline Dutch Eurosceptic party that has been criticised as anti-Polish and Islamophobic

Historically, the Netherlands have been a very pro-European country, being one of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952, and campaigning with much effort to include the United Kingdom into the Community in the 1970s and others after that. It has become slightly more Eurosceptic in the 2000s, rejecting the European Constitution in 2005 and complaining about the relatively high financial investment into the Union or the democratic deficit amongst other issues.

A number of hard and soft eurosceptic parties have politicians elected to the Dutch House of Representatives and European Parliament which include:

• The nationalist Party for Freedom (founded in 2006) is a hard-eurosceptic party and wants the Netherlands to leave the EU in its entirety, because it believes the EU is undemocratic, costs money and cannot close the borders for immigrants.
• The conservative and right-wing populist Forum for Democracy (FvD) party was originally founded by Thierry Baudet as a think tank to campaign against the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine. In 2016, the FvD was established as a fully fledged party. It is opposed to many of the policies of the European Union and calls for a referendum on Dutch membership in which it would endorse withdrawal.
• The conservative-liberal JA21 party (founded in 2021 as a splinter from the FvD) is opposed to Dutch participation several European Union agreements, including its immigration and asylum policies, and believes Dutch identity and self-determination should be prioritized above the EU. It supports Dutch withdrawal from the Eurozone and for the Netherlands to exit EU treaties it deems a threat to national sovereignty.
• The Socialist Party believes the European Union has already brought Europe 50 years of peace and prosperity and argues that European co-operation is essential for tackling global problems like climate change and international crime. The SP opines that the current Union is dominated by the big businesses and the big countries, while the labour movement, consumer organisations and smaller companies are often left behind. "Neoliberal" measures have supposedly increased social inequality, and perhaps the Union is expanding too fast and taking on too much power in issues that should be dealt with on a national level.
• The conservative Protestant Reformed Political Party and the Christian Union favour co-operation within Europe, but reject a superstate, especially one that is dominated by Catholics, or that infringes on religious rights and/or privileges.
• The pensioner's interest party 50PLUS is moderately Eurosceptic.
• The ecologist Party for the Animals favours European co-operation, but believes the current EU does not respect animal rights enough and should have a more active policy on environment protection.
• The agrarian and rural interests Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) was founded in 2019 and is a soft-eurosceptic party. It supports membership of the EU for economic and trade purposes, but argues the political power of the EU should be stripped back so the bloc is closer to the model of the former EEC, wants reforms made to the Eurozone and is against the EU becoming a superstate.
• The classical liberal and conservative Belang van Nederland (founded in 2021 as a splinter from the FvD) wants to stop any further transfer of powers to the EU without referendums, calls for Dutch law to come before EU law and for a referendum on EU membership if polls show public support for one or if the EU assumes more powers.

A prominent former Eurosceptic party in the Netherlands was the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) established by politician and academic Pim Fortuyn in 2002. The party campaigned to reduce Dutch financial contributions to the EU, was against Turkish membership and opposed what it saw as the excessive bureaucracy and threat to national sovereignty posed by the EU. During the 2002 general election, the LPF polled in second place with 17% of the vote. Following the assassination of Fortuyn in the run-up to the election, support for the party declined soon after and it was disbanded in 2008 with many of is former supporters transferring to the Party for Freedom.

Despite these concerns, in 2014 the majority of the Dutch electorate continued to support parties that favour ongoing European integration: the Social Democrats, the Christian Democrats, the Liberals, but most of all the (Liberal) Democrats.

In 2016, a substantial majority in a low-turnout referendum rejected the ratification of an EU trade and association treaty with Ukraine.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, Eurosceptic parties had mixed results with Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom losing all 4 of its seats taking only 3.5% of the vote. The new Forum for Democracy established in late 2016 took 11.0% of the vote and entered the European Parliament with 3 seats.

Poland

See also: Polexit

The main parties with Eurosceptic views are Law and Justice (PiS), United Poland (SP) and the Confederation Liberty and Independence and the main Eurosceptic politicians include Ryszard Bender, Andrzej Grzesik, Krzysztof Bosak, Dariusz Grabowski, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Marian Kowalski, Paweł Kukiz, Zbigniew Ziobro, Anna Sobecka, Robert Winnicki, Artur Zawisza, and Stanisław Żółtek.

Former president of Poland Lech Kaczyński resisted giving his signature on behalf of Poland to the Treaty of Lisbon, objecting specifically to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Subsequently, Poland got an opt-out from this charter. As Polish President, Kaczyński also opposed the Polish government's intentions to join the euro.

Polish President Andrzej Duda, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Jarosław Kaczyński, 9 April 2018

In 2015, it was reported that Euroscepticism was growing in Poland, which was thought to be due to the "economic crisis, concern over perceived interference from Brussels and migration". Polish president Andrzej Duda indicated that he wished for Poland to step back from further EU integration. He suggested that the country should "hold a referendum on joining the euro, resist further integration and fight the EU's green policies", despite getting the largest share of EU cash.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, the Law and Justice party won the largest number of seats, with a vote share increase up from 31.8% to 45.4%, increasing its seats from 19 to 27.

"Trumna dla rybaków" ("Coffin for fishermen"). A sign visible on the sides of many Polish fishing boats. It depicts an obscene Slavic gesture. Polish fishermen protest against the EU's prohibition of cod fishing on Polish ships.

In 2019, the former MEP Stanisław Żółtek created a political party called PolEXIT, whose flagship ideology is euroscepticism. Its candidate for president of Poland in the 2020 elections was the party's leader, Żółtek, who got 45 419 votes (0.23%), ranking 7th out of 11 candidates and did not qualify to the second round.

Portugal

The main Eurosceptic parties in Portugal are Chega, the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), and Left Bloc (BE). Opinion polling in Portugal in 2015 indicated that 48 per cent tended not to trust the EU, while 79 per cent tended not to trust the Portuguese government (then led by Portugal Ahead). Eurosceptic political parties hold a combined total of 23 seats out of 230 in Portugal's parliament (BE 5, PCP 6, PNR 0, CHEGA 12) and a combined total of 4 out of Portugal's 21 seats in the European Parliament (PCP 2, BE 2, PNR 0, CHEGA 0).

In the last 2014 European Parliament election, the Portuguese Communist Party won three seats and the Left Bloc won one seat.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, Left Bloc took 9.8% and gained 1 seat, Portuguese Communist Party working in coalition with Ecologist Party "The Greens" took 6.9% and 2 seats and National Renovator Party (PNR) polled just 0.5%, with no seats.

2019 saw the emergence of a new Eurosceptic political party, Chega, who gained a seat in that year's legislative election. The party did not capture any seats in the 2019 European Parliament elections, but saw its leader André Ventura finish third in the 2021 presidential election, securing 11.9% of those voting.

In the 2022 Portuguese snap election, Chega got 7.2% of the vote and 12 out of the 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic.

Romania

See also: Romanian withdrawal from the European Union

Several parties espousing Eurosceptic views exist on the right, such as the New Republic, the Greater Romania Party and Noua Dreaptă, but as of June 2020 none of these parties are represented in European Parliament. Euroscepticism is relatively unpopular in Romania, a 2015 survey found 65% of Romanians had a positive view of the country's EU membership.

The Eurosceptic parties remained unrepresented in the 2019 European Parliament election.

The soft Eurosceptic Alliance for the Union of Romanians, which was founded in September 2019, entered the Romanian parliament in 2020.

Slovakia

Parties with Eurosceptic views are the Slovak National Party, Republic, We Are Family, People's Party Our Slovakia. Prominent Slovak Eurosceptic politicians include Andrej Danko, Milan Uhrík, Boris Kollár, Marian Kotleba.

In the 2019 European Parliament election, People's Party Our Slovakia came 3rd securing 12.1% and winning their first 2 seats in the European Parliament, whereas the Slovak National Party and We Are Family did not win any seats.

Slovenia

Parties with mainly Eurosceptic views are Slovenian National Party and The Left. Neither won seats in the 2019 European Parliament election in Slovenia.

Spain

Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox

The process of Europeanization changed during the years in Spain. In 1986 Spain entered in the European Community. Since then, Spain has been one of the most Europeanist countries. Therefore, when Spain became part of the European Community, the country had a strong pro-Europeanist feeling, according to Eurobarometer, as it reflected a 60% of the population. In Spain different reasons explain its entrance to the European Community. On the one hand, democracy has just been established in Spain after Francisco Franco dictatorship. On the other hand, the main objectives of Spain were to achieve economic development, and also a social modernization. Spain was one of the few countries to vote Yes for the European Constitution in a referendum in February 2005, though by a lower margin in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

In 2008, after the financial crisis reached Spain, the percentage of pro European persons started to fall. Thus, during the five years of the economic crisis, the Eurobarometer shows how the trust in the EU increasingly fell in Spain, and the confidence of the Spanish citizens in the European Union decreased for more than 50 points. Spain became one of the most Eurosceptic countries among all European Union Members, as it happened in pretty much European countries, where nationalist and eurosceptic characterised parties became stronger.

The historical two-parties system, composed by the conservative Partido Popular and the social-democratic Partido Socialista Obrero Español, collapsed. In the 2000s, the liberal Ciudadanos and leftist party Podemos became part of the political context, gaining electoral consensus, followed years later by ultranationalist party Vox. The new parties were the effect of the disaffection of most Spaniards towards politics and politicians, that increased for several reasons: firstly, corruption at all political levels, reaching the Royal Family too; secondly, recession intensified distrust of the population towards national government; thirdly, a phase of renovation of the autonomous regions which extended the distance between the National government and the Regional ones.

Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, a left-wing to far-left political party with about 1,300 members advocates independence for Catalonia outside of the European Union. Up to 2014 European elections, there were no Spanish parties present in the Eurosceptic groups at the European Parliament. In the 2015 Spanish general election, Podemos became the first left-wing Eurosceptic political party to win seats in the Congress of Deputies, obtaining 69 seats, and in the 2019 Spanish general election, Vox became the first far-right Eurosceptic political party to win seats in the Congress of Deputies, obtaining 24 seats.

Sweden

The Left Party of Sweden is against accession to the eurozone and previously wanted Sweden to leave the European Union until 2019. The new party program, adapted in 2024, is highly EU-critical but states that an EU-withdrawal is only a "last option". Their youth organization Young Left is still campaigning for Sweden to leave the EU.

The nationalist and right-wing populist party Sweden Democrats (SD) support closer political, economic and military cooperation with neighboring Nordic and certain Northern European countries, but strongly oppose further EU integration and further transfers of Swedish sovereignty to the EU as a whole. The party is also against Swedish accession to the eurozone, the creation of a combined EU military budget and want to renegotiate Swedish membership of the Schengen Agreement. The SD also want a constitutional amendment to require that all EU treaties must be voted on by the Swedish public first and that if the EU cannot be reformed and assumes more power at the expense of national sovereignty Sweden must exit the bloc.

The June List, a Eurosceptic list consisting of members from both the political right and left won three seats in the 2004 Elections to the European Parliament and sat in the EU-critical IND/DEM group in the European Parliament. The movement Folkrörelsen Nej till EU favours a withdrawal from the EU.

Around 75% of the Riksdag members represent parties that officially supports the Sweden membership.

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.7% of the vote, up 6.4%, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3% of the vote.

In the European Parliament election, 2019, the Sweden Democrats increased from 2 to 3 seats with 15.3% of the vote, up from 9.7%, and the Left Party retained its one seat with 6.8% of the vote.

In winter 2019–2020, in connection with the request from "poor" member countries of much higher membership fees for "rich" member countries, for the reason of keeping support levels so "poor" countries would not suffer from Brexit, where a "rich" country left the union in part due to high membership fees, a media and social media debate for a "Swexit" increased. This was still rejected by parties representing a majority of the parliament, with the COVID-19 pandemic quickly taking over the debate.

In other European countries

Armenia

Prosperous Armenia represents the main Eurosceptic party in Armenia. Following the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, the party gained 26 seats in the National Assembly, becoming the official opposition. Following the 2021 Armenian parliamentary election, the party lost all political representation and currently acts as an extra-parliamentary force. The party was a member of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats is a Bosnian Serb political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1996, it is the governing party in Bosnia and Herzegovina's entity called Republika Srpska, with its leader being Milorad Dodik.

Georgia

Georgian March is the main Eurosceptic party in Georgia. The party supports a slight distancing of Georgia from the West, as well as rejecting the country's entrance into NATO.

In March 2022, Georgia submitted a formal application for membership of the EU.

Iceland

The three main Eurosceptic parties in Iceland are the Independence Party, Left-Green Movement and the Progressive Party. The Independence Party and the Progressive Party won the parliamentary election in April 2013 and they have halted the current negotiations with the European Union regarding Icelandic membership and tabled a parliamentary resolution on 21 February 2014 to withdraw the application completely.

In 2017, Iceland's newly elected government announced that it would hold a vote in parliament on whether to hold a referendum on resuming EU membership negotiations. In November 2017 that government was replaced by a coalition of the Independence Party, the Left Green Movement and the Progressive Party; all of whom oppose membership. Only 11 out of 63 MPs are in favour of EU membership.

Moldova

The main Eurosceptic parties in Moldova are the left-wing Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova, which officially declared its main purpose to be the integration of Moldova in the Eurasian Economic Union, Victory, and the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, even if nowadays its leader speech became more soft on the issue of Euroscepticism. As of March 2022 all the parties are represented in Moldovan Parliament, with 35 MPs out of a total of 101 MPs.

In March 2022, Moldova submitted a formal application for membership of the EU.

Montenegro

The right-wing Democratic Front alliance are the main moderate eurosceptic subject in the Parliament of Montenegro, although its initially declaratively supported country's bid for accession to the European Union, all other parliamentary subjects officially advocates Montenegrin access to EU. The only parties that advocates Montenegro's rejecting the European integration are the extra-parliamentary right-wing populist to far-right parties, such as True Montenegro, Party of Serb Radicals, Democratic Party of Unity and the Serb List, all four are known for their close cooperation with the parliamentary Democratic Front.

Norway

See also: Norway–European Union relations

Norway has rejected EU membership in two referendums, 1972 and 1994. The Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, Socialist Left Party and Liberal Party were against EU membership in both referendums. The Liberal Party was particularly divided on the issue, and a large pro-EEC minority split off from the party before the 1972 referendum. In 2020, the Liberal Party officially reversed its position and since then, supports Norwegian EU membership.

Among the established political parties of Norway, the Centre Party, Socialist Left Party, and Red Party are also against Norway's current membership of the European Economic Area. In addition, the libertarian Capitalist Party and Christian-conservative The Christians, both of whom have never held a seat in the Norwegian parliament, are also against Norway's membership in the EEA.

Russia

See also: Russia–European Union relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin is an outspoken Eurosceptic who has promoted an alternative Economic Union with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan – the Eurasian Economic Union.

Parties with mainly Eurosceptic views are the ruling United Russia, and opposition parties the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

Following the annexation of Crimea, the European Union issued sanctions on the Russian Federation in response to what it regards as an "illegal" annexation and "deliberate destabilisation" of a neighbouring sovereign country. In response to this, Alexey Borodavkin – Russia's permanent representative with the UN – said "The EU is committing a direct violation of human rights by its actions against Russia. The unilateral sanctions introduced against us are not only illegitimate according to international law, they also undermine Russian citizens' freedom of travel, freedom of development, freedom of work and others". In the same year, Russian president Vladimir Putin said: "What are the so-called European values? Maintaining the coup, the armed seizure of power and the suppression of dissent with the help of the armed forces?"

A February 2014 poll conducted by the Levada Center, Russia's largest independent polling organization, found that nearly 80% of Russian respondents had a "good" impression of the EU. This changed dramatically in 2014 with the Ukrainian crisis resulting in 70% taking a hostile view of the EU compared to 20% viewing it positively.

A Levada poll released in August 2018 found that 68% of Russians polled believe that Russia needs to dramatically improve relations with Western countries. 42% of Russian respondents said they had a positive view of the EU, up from 28% in May 2018.

San Marino

A referendum was held in the landlocked microstate on 20 October 2013 in which the citizens were asked whether the country should submit an application to join the European Union. The proposal was rejected because of a low turnout, even though 50.3% of voters approved it. The "Yes" campaign was supported by the main left-wing parties (Socialist Party, United Left) and the Union for the Republic whereas the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party suggested voting with a blank ballot, the Popular Alliance declared itself neutral, and We Sammarinese and the RETE movement supported the "No" campaign. The Citizens' Rights Directive, which defines the right of free movement for the European citizens, may have been an important reason for those voting no.

Serbia

Сербский политик Бошко Обрадович, известный евроскептик.

In Serbia, political parties with eurosceptic views tend to be right-orientated. The most notable examples are the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) which since its inception has opposed entering the European Union and the right-wing populist Dveri. Political parties such as the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) had pro-Western views and was initially supportive of the accession into the European Union but under the late 2000s leadership of Vojislav Koštunica they turned eurosceptic, and the Enough is Enough (DJB) political party, initially a liberal centrist party that also supported the accession turned towards the right-wing eurosceptic position shortly after 2018.

Исторически Социалистическая партия Сербии (СПС) и Югославские левые (ЮЛ) были единственными двумя политическими партиями левого толка, которые навязывали евроскептические и антизападные взгляды. Правящая в Сербии коалиция « За наших детей» , преимущественно проевропейски ориентированная, также состоит из двух второстепенных евроскептических партий — правой Сербской народной партии. который выступает за более тесные связи с Россией, и левое Движение социалистов , образовавшееся в результате отделения евроскептиков от СПС в 2000-х годах.

Другими второстепенными политическими партиями в Сербии, придерживающимися евроскептических взглядов, являются «Здоровая Сербия» , «Движение народной свободы» , «Русская партия» , «Любовь, Вера, Надежда», «Сербская партия клятвенников» , «Сербское право» и «Движение Левиафана» .

Швейцария

См. Также: Отношения Швейцарии и Европейского Союза.

Швейцария уже давно известна своим нейтралитетом в международной политике. Швейцарские избиратели отвергли в ЕЭЗ членство в 1992 году и в ЕС в 2001 году . Несмотря на прохождение нескольких референдумов, призывающих к более тесным отношениям между Швейцарией и Европейским Союзом , таких как принятие двусторонних договоров и присоединение к Шенгенской зоне , второго референдума о вступлении в ЕЭЗ или ЕС не ожидается. и широкая общественность по-прежнему против присоединения.

В феврале 2014 года швейцарские избиратели с небольшим перевесом одобрили референдум, ограничивающий свободу передвижения граждан ЕС в Швейцарию.

Политические партии евроскептиков включают Швейцарскую народную партию , которая является крупнейшей политической партией в Швейцарии , получившей 29,4% голосов избирателей по состоянию на федеральные выборы 2015 года . Меньшие партии евроскептиков включают, помимо прочего, Федеральный демократический союз , Лигу Тичино и Гражданское движение Женевы , которые все считаются партиями правого толка.

Кроме того, Кампания за независимую и нейтральную Швейцарию — это политическая организация в Швейцарии, которая решительно выступает против членства Швейцарии в Европейском Союзе или дальнейшей интеграции с ним иным образом.

На региональном уровне немецкоязычное большинство, а также италоязычные регионы являются наиболее евроскептическими, в то время как франкоязычная Швейцария имеет тенденцию быть более проевропейской интеграции. На референдуме 2001 года большинство франкоговорящих проголосовали против членства в ЕС. Согласно опросу, проведенному MIS Trend в 2016 году и опубликованному в L'Hebdo , 69 процентов населения Швейцарии поддерживают систематический пограничный контроль, 53 процента хотят ограничения соглашения ЕС о свободном передвижении людей, а 14 процентов хотят его полной отмены. 54% населения Швейцарии заявили, что в случае необходимости они в конечном итоге сохранят свободу передвижения по народному согласию.

Турция

Двумя основными партиями евроскептиков являются крайне правая ультранационалистическая Партия националистического движения (ПНД), получившая 11,1% голосов и 49 мест в парламенте на последних выборах , и Партия счастья (Saadet Partisi), крайне правая партия. Суннитская исламистская партия, которая не имеет мест в парламенте, поскольку на последних выборах она получила лишь 0,7% голосов, что намного ниже порога в 10%, необходимого для представительства в парламенте.

Многие левые националистические и крайне левые партии не имеют мест в парламенте, но контролируют многие активистские и студенческие движения в Турции. Патриотическая партия (ранее называвшаяся Рабочей партией) рассматривает Европейский Союз как лидера глобального империализма.

, основанная 26 августа 2021 года под руководством Юмита Оздага , Партия Победы (Турция) является турецкой националистической и антииммигрантской политической партией. она представлена ​​двумя депутатами В Великом Национальном Собрании Турции . « Европейский Союз не хочет вести переговоры с Турцией. Мы больше не будем унижать Турцию». - сказал Оздаг.

Украина

См. Также: Отношения Украины и Европейского Союза.

Дмитрий Ярош , лидер украинской жесткой евроскептической партии «Правый сектор»

Партиями с преимущественно евроскептическими взглядами являются «Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь» , «Оппозиционный блок» , «Партия Шария» и «Правый сектор» .

Крайне правая украинская группировка «Правый сектор» выступает против вступления в Евросоюз. Он рассматривает ЕС как «угнетателя» европейских стран.

На парламентских выборах 2019 года « Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь» получила 37 мест по общенациональному партийному списку и 6 мест по округу.

Лидер Партии Шария Анатолий Шарий — один из ближайших соратников Виктора Медведчука , которого спецслужбы Украины подозревают в финансировании терроризма.

Великобритания

Основные статьи: Брексит и евроскептицизм в Соединенном Королевстве

Найджел Фарадж , бывший лидер UKIP и нынешний лидер реформ Великобритании и бывший соруководитель группы «Европа свободы и прямой демократии» в Европейском парламенте. Фараж — один из самых видных деятелей евроскептиков в Великобритании.

Евроскептицизм в Соединенном Королевстве был второстепенным, но значимым элементом британской политики с момента создания Европейского экономического сообщества (ЕЭС), предшественника ЕС. Учитывая относительную географическую изоляцию Британских островов от остальной Европы на основной территории, политика европейского членства по-прежнему имеет гораздо более низкий приоритет, чем внутренняя национальная политика. После референдума о членстве в Европейском сообществе в 1975 году вопрос евроскептицизма на политической сцене был отодвинут на второстепенный вопрос крайних границ политического спектра среди крайне левых и крайне правых . Европейский Союз сильно разделяет британскую общественность, политические партии, средства массовой информации и гражданское общество.

Исторически Консервативная партия выражала разногласия по вопросу членства в ЕС, при этом официальная позиция менялась: партийное руководство и отдельные депутаты внутри партии по-разному выступали за полный выход и сохранение в ЕС, в то время как другие занимали позицию мягкого евроскептицизма , поддерживая членства, но выступает против присоединения к еврозоне и дальнейшей интеграции. До 1980-х годов Консервативная партия была несколько более проевропейской, чем Лейбористская партия: например, на голосовании в Палате общин 1971 года по вопросу о вступлении Великобритании в Европейское экономическое сообщество только 39 из тогдашних 330 депутатов-консерваторов были против членство.

Когда Маргарет Тэтчер пришла к власти в качестве премьер-министра в 1979 году, взгляды Консервативной партии на ЕС резко изменились: от поддержки ЕС к скептицизму, тем самым проводя кампанию против расширения его полномочий. Тэтчер считали «духовной матерью» евроскептицизма - хотя он никогда не выступал за отделение, будучи премьер-министром, предвидя менее интегрированное место в ЕС, но все же оставаясь его членом - и стал одним из самых важных голосов евроскептиков в Соединенном Королевстве на протяжении 1990-х годов, в конечном итоге изменив точку зрения консерваторов. по ЕС. В 2009 году Консервативная партия активно выступила против Лиссабонского договора , который, по ее мнению, отдал слишком много суверенитета Брюсселю. Теневой министр иностранных дел Уильям Хейг заявил, что, если договор вступит в силу к моменту прихода к власти консервативного правительства, он «не оставит ситуацию на месте».

Хотя его часто связывают с тем, что он был основной причиной политических крайне правых в конце 20-х годов. ^й в 21 ^ул. века, когда современная Лейбористская партия поддерживает членство в ЕС, в крайне левой британской политике были известные политики-евроскептики, такие как бывший министр лейбористского кабинета в 1970-х годах Тони Бенн , который на протяжении всей своей карьеры долгое время выступал против членства Великобритании в ЕС. . Среди других членов парламента от Лейбористской партии, поддержавших евроскептические настроения и вывод Великобритании, были Кейт Хоуи , Фрэнк Филд , Грэм Стрингер , Ян Остин , Том Харрис , Гизела Стюарт и Остин Митчелл . Среди других левых фигур - Джордж Галлоуэй и профсоюзный деятель-социалист Артур Скаргилл, которые оба поддержали выход Великобритании из Европейского Союза.

Крайне правая Партия независимости Великобритании (UKIP) была создана с конкретной целью – выступать за односторонний выход Великобритании из Европейского Союза ( Брекзит ) с момента ее основания в 1993 году. Эта партия имела очень небольшую поддержку со стороны населения Великобритании в целом, во многом из-за общего безразличия и апатии к этому вопросу. UKIP оставался на периферии политики и получил только одно место на всеобщих выборах в Палату общин в парламенте в 2015 году. Он имел более сильную, но сильно локализованную поддержку в местной политике в районах с сильным рабочим классом, получив 163 советника в местные органы власти. в этих областях, но далеко не настолько, чтобы получить какое-либо большинство в любом совете. До 2014 года она получила лишь небольшое количество мест в Парламенте ЕС, в основном из-за апатии общества к голосованию на выборах в Европейский парламент, что выражалось в очень низкой явке избирателей. Падение поддержки всех трех основных политических партий в 2014 году привело к тому, что UKIP получила 27,5% голосов на выборах в Европейский парламент , в основном в сельской Англии и в меньшей степени в Уэльсе.

После безрезультатных результатов всеобщих выборов 2010 года , приведших к подвешению парламента , вопрос о членстве в ЕС оставался на низком уровне в политической приоритетной повестке дня — вообще говоря, не являлся проблемой. Однако партией, получившей наибольшее количество мест в парламенте 2010 года, были консерваторы , которые были глубоко расколоты проблемой, которую в целом возглавляло проевропейское руководство, но с большим количеством очень крикливых евроскептиков . В качестве политического компромисса лидер партии Дэвид Кэмерон с его слабой позиции был вынужден согласиться на политическое обещание провести референдум о членстве в ЕС.

Сформировав коалицию с решительно проевропейской Либерально-демократической партией , консерваторы отказались от обещания на референдуме ЕС, которое Кэмерон вообще никогда не хотел выполнять. В политическом отношении ЕС оставался второстепенным вопросом, если не считать скандалов в консервативной среде, разжигаемых правыми печатными СМИ и прессой – во главе с The Daily Telegraph , The Daily Mail и The Sun – которые поддерживали этот вопрос.

К 2015 году поддержка либерал-демократов рухнула – что типично для второстепенной партии в коалиционном правительстве – потому что их основные левоцентристские сторонники обычно голосовали против консерваторов. На всеобщих выборах 2015 года этот либерал. Дем. Крах голосования привел к неожиданной победе консерваторов, особенно Кэмерона, поскольку общенациональные опросы постоянно предсказывали новый подвешенный парламент.

Консерваторы вернули обещание провести референдум ЕС в 2014 году, и Кэмерон, после чего Кэмерон, к своему сожалению, обнаружил, что ему придется выполнить это обещание. После провала референдума об отделении Шотландии от Соединенного Королевства и неожиданной победы на всеобщих выборах Кэмерон придал смелости отказаться от этого обещания раньше или позже - перспектива того, что это обещание на референдуме нависнет над правительством, казалось еще хуже. Стремясь уменьшить евроскептицизм, Кэмерон добивался и добился от ЕС благоприятного пересмотра условий членства, чтобы принести Великобритании больше выгод от ЕС, который он связал с референдумом.

На референдуме 23 июня 2016 года о членстве в ЕС , хотя консерваторы в любом случае не имели официальной политической политической позиции, их лидер Кэмерон определенно выступал за то, чтобы остаться в ЕС — хотя с пересмотром условий членства был получен небольшой политический пробег. — и партия, как всегда, оставалась глубоко расколотой.

Политика Лейбористской партии официально поддерживала сохранение членства в ЕС, хотя Джереми Корбин лидер партии и его сторонники «Импульс» выступали вяло в защиту против отделения. С тех пор, как Корбин был впервые избран в 1984 году как стойкий приверженец евроскептика Тони Бенна и его крайне левого крыла, Корбин лично выступал на протяжении всего своего срока в качестве члена парламента от лейбористской партии, поэтому в начале кампании он предположил, что он охотно рассмотрит возможность выхода вопреки официальной партии. политика. Либерал -демократы были самой непреклонно проевропейской партией, и после референдума проевропейский подход стал их основной политикой.

референдума В результате общее количество голосов за выход из ЕС, а не за сохранение членства в ЕС, составило 51,9% против 48,1% при явке 72,2%. Голоса были разделены между странами, входящими в состав Соединенного Королевства: большинство в Англии и Уэльсе проголосовали за выход, значительное большинство в Шотландии и Северной Ирландии , а также подавляющее 96% в Гибралтаре ( британская заморская территория ). , голосуя за то, чтобы остаться. В результате референдума правительство Великобритании уведомило ЕС о своем намерении выйти 29 марта 2017 года, сославшись на статью 50 Лиссабонского договора .

12 апреля 2019 года была официально основана новая партия евроскептиков — Партия Брексита бывшим UKIP лидером Найджелом Фараджем .

На выборах в Европейский парламент в 2019 году Партия Брексита с большим отрывом возглавила национальный опрос с 31,7%, получив 29 мест, баллотируясь за единую политику выхода из ЕС, по сравнению с либерал-демократами, занявшими второе место с 18,5% и 16 местами, которые продвигали себя как партия «Остаться в ЕС» (общее количество голосов за партии, поддерживающие «Остаться в ЕС», было примерно таким же, как и за партии, поддерживающие Брексит «без сделки»). Консервативная партия получила самую низкую за всю историю общенациональную долю голосов - 9,1%, получив всего 4 места, после трех лет неудачных переговоров Терезы Мэй по Брекситу. Двусмысленная позиция Лейбористской партии по Брекситу (Корбин с готовностью принял результат, но большая часть партии осталась против), что привело к значительному падению их доли голосов до 14,1%, что привело к потере половины их мест с 20 до 10 по мере распада. вдали от своей основной поддержки со стороны крупных городов Великобритании, особенно Лондона, которые являются проевропейскими. Быстрый рост Партии Брексита стал фактором, способствовавшим (наряду с неспособностью найти приемлемый путь между «мягким» и «жестким» Брекситом, даже внутри ее собственной партии, не говоря уже о парламенте), к заявлению Терезы Мэй 24 мая. что она уйдет с поста лидера консерваторов и премьер-министра 7 июня 2019 года. После выборов депутатов-евроскептиков « синих воротничков» . фракция консервативных была сформирована

После избрания Бориса Джонсона лидером в 2019 году новый кабинет консерваторов стал решительным сторонником выхода Соединенного Королевства из Европейского Союза, и его платформа была изменена, чтобы единогласно поддержать выход из ЕС, и проводилась систематическая кампания по чистке отмена всех проевропейских депутатов и кандидатов от партии на всеобщих выборах 2019 года , на которых Консервативная партия приняла в своем манифесте четкую «жесткую» платформу Брексита.

23 января 2020 года парламент Соединенного Королевства ратифицировал соглашение о выходе из Европейского Союза, которое было ратифицировано Парламентом ЕС 30 января. 31 января Великобритания официально вышла из Евросоюза спустя 47 лет. В течение переходного периода до 31 декабря 2020 года Великобритания по-прежнему следовала правилам ЕС и продолжала свободную торговлю и свободное передвижение людей внутри Европейского Союза.

Контркритика

Бен Чу, пишущий для The Independent , выступал против левого представления о том, что ЕС является неолиберальной организацией, указывая на «высокий уровень социальной защиты, государственные железнодорожные компании, национализированные коммунальные предприятия и банки, различные меры контроля над ценами и промышленные интервенции». .

См. также

• Антифедерализм
• Балканизация
• Кампания по европейскому референдуму
• европеизм
• Глобализация
• Институты Европейского Союза
• Радикальные правые в Европе
• Субсидиарность в Европейском Союзе (Права и обязанности государств-членов.)
• Соединенные Штаты Европы
• Четвертый Рейх
• Выход из Европейского Союза согласно статье 50
• Права штатов (США)

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