Whose story about Europe? The problem of acceptance and legitimisation of the European project in the eyes of young people

• Authors: Borkowski, Paweł B , Rojewska, Marta , Zamęcki, Łukasz

Abstracts

EN

This article reflects on the issue of legitimacy and attitudes of the young generation (16–19 years old) towards the European integration. The authors decided to divide the text into two parts, the first of which consists of the theoretical and historical approach to the problem of the legitimacy of European integration and the narrative about Europe, and the second presents the main conclusions and problems identified during the work of authors with the youth, and the implementation of the international Jean Monnet Network project MoreEU: More Europe to overcome the crisis. Confrontation of these two parts has made it clear that traditional justification of the legitimacy of the integration project does not speak to the contemporary youth, and that this is precisely in this age group that we can clearly see the crisis of the legitimacy of the European Union.

Keywords

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narrative about Europe; problem of legitimisation of the European integration; social reception of the European Union; youth in the debate on the future of the European Union

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 2017 (43)(1)
• Pages: 105-117

Dates

published

2020-03-01

Contributors

author

Borkowski, Paweł B

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Rojewska, Marta

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Zamęcki, Łukasz

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31338/1641-2478pe.1.17.5