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dc.contributor.authorCLOSA, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorMAATSCH, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-09T17:20:14Z
dc.date.available2016-03-09T17:20:14Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationJournal of common market studies, 2014, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 826-842
dc.identifier.issn0021-9886
dc.identifier.issn1468-5965
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/39474
dc.descriptionFirst published online: 10 January 2014
dc.description.abstractThis article examines national parliamentarians’ approval of the increased budgetary capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) in autumn 2011. Following the analysis of vote outcome and plenary debates in 11 euro states, it is found that the financial position of a state (creditors versus debtors) does not explain the patterns of support and opposition. Rather, two other factors account for these differences: Euroscepticism, and the government and opposition cleavage. In particular, whereas Eurosceptic MPs voted and argued against the EFSF, the parliamentary majorities supported it. Surprisingly, although the legal basis of the EFSF draws on solidarity among the European Union Member States, the supporters of the EFSF did not refer to this principle in their speeches but rather to pragmatic considerations such as national economic interests.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of common market studies
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Global Governance Programme]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[European, Transnational and Global Governance]en
dc.subject.otherRegulation and economic policy
dc.titleIn a spirit of solidarity? : justifying the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) in national parliamentary debatesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jcms.12119
dc.identifier.volume52
dc.identifier.startpage826
dc.identifier.endpage842
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