@article{2016:pasquinucci:the_histor,
title = {The Historical Origins of Italian Euroscepticism},
year = {2016},
note = {Euroscepticism has been the subject of historical research for some
time. Interest in the topic has arisen from the knowledge that
opposition to European integration has a temporal dimension which has
shaped its content. On this basis, this essay goes to the historical
roots of Italian Euroscepticism. The fact that these roots are
identified in the quality of Europeism in this country is only
apparently a paradox. In Italy there exists a longstanding vision of
European integration (understood as a community of destiny) which is
both redemptive (implicit in the concept of “external constraint”)
and teleological. The gap between this political-cultural
representation and the current crisis of the EU should be borne in
mind when analysing the origins and fortunes of Italian
Euroscepticism. At the same time, the anti-German stereotypes feeding
Euroscepticism have antecedents which go back a long way and which
this essay reconstructs and contextualizes.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {297--312},
author = {PASQUINUCCI, Daniele},
volume = {22},
number = {2}
}