{"title":"From the EC to the EU. Ready or Not","authors":"Mark Gilbert","doi":"10.51663/pnz.63.2.01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the cases of Italy and the UK suggest that European integration is a contested process and certainly not one that inevitably brings good results. It requires complex national realities to adapt themselves to norms decided collectively at elite level. In hindsight (but not only in hindsight), the UK’s political culture, and Italy’s political-institutional system, were radically unprepared for the shock of accelerating integration in the 1990s and 2000s.","PeriodicalId":38904,"journal":{"name":"Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino / Inštitut za zgodovino delavskega gibanja","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino / Inštitut za zgodovino delavskega gibanja","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.51663/pnz.63.2.01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article argues that the cases of Italy and the UK suggest that European integration is a contested process and certainly not one that inevitably brings good results. It requires complex national realities to adapt themselves to norms decided collectively at elite level. In hindsight (but not only in hindsight), the UK’s political culture, and Italy’s political-institutional system, were radically unprepared for the shock of accelerating integration in the 1990s and 2000s.