ABSTRACT

This book offers an accessible, coherent and comprehensive analysis of the recent, contemporary and future challenges and possibilities facing Denmark in the European integration process.

The book traces the formal as well as the informal ways of influence and adaptation in Denmark’s relations with the European Union. In doing so, it also offers a contribution to our understanding of Europe as a differentiated political arena. Topics covered include:

    • Identifying the challenges and opportunities of Danish EU membership, via the policies pursued by Denmark in Europe.
    • The ways in which Denmark adapts to the European integration process .
    • Consequences of EU integration for citizen rights, democracy, policy coordination and implementation efficiency.

Denmark and the European Union will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union and integration politics.

chapter 2|16 pages

Denmark's relation to the European Union

A history of dualism and pragmatism

chapter 3|17 pages

The Internal Market Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy

The normalization of EU policy-making in Denmark

chapter 4|18 pages

Denmark and the Euro opt-out

chapter 5|15 pages

Justice and home affairs

Denmark as an active differential European 1

chapter 6|15 pages

A pace-setter out of sync?

Danish foreign, security and defence policy and the European Union

chapter 8|17 pages

Denmark and the European Commission

Entering the Heart of the Union

chapter 10|14 pages

Prospects and limits of European interest representation

The shipping and wind turbine industries

chapter 12|14 pages

EU-phoria or -phobia?

Danish public opinion about the EU

chapter 14|14 pages

EU coordination processes in Denmark

Change in order to preserve 1

chapter 15|11 pages

Not quite a painful choice?

Reflecting on Denmark and further European integration 1

chapter 16|11 pages

A smart state handling a differentiated integration dilemma?

Concluding on Denmark in the European Union