ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issue of what it means for the EU’s subjectivity in northern Europe that Estonia joined the Union as a new ‘semi-insider’ in May 2004, after 67 per cent of the eligible voters said ‘yes’ in the referendum held LQ6HSWHPEHU:LWKDERXWRQHVL[WKRI(VWRQLDQUHVLGHQWVLQHOLJLEOHIRUWKH referendum on grounds of their lack of Estonian citizenship – including mainly Russophone people – the end result was much more comfortable for the Estonian government and the pro-EU campaigners than was feared in a country which allegedly was the ‘most eurosceptic and anti-integrationist’ among the CEE candiGDWHV5DLND7DIHODQG5DLN1 This gives us a good reason to ask what will Estonia bring to the Union, and how will it contribute to its ‘north Europeanness’?
