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To be in, or to be out: reflections on the Danish referendum. EPIN Commentary No. 29, 10 December 2015

Sørensen, Catharina (2015) To be in, or to be out: reflections on the Danish referendum. EPIN Commentary No. 29, 10 December 2015. [Policy Paper]

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    Abstract

    In this EPIN Commentary, Catharina Sørensen offers her reflections on Denmark’s referendum, held on December 3rd, on whether the country should change its blanket opt-out on all justice and home affairs cooperation in the EU to the more nuanced opt-in model adopted by the UK and Ireland. In her view, the outcome reflected the two separate ‘languages’ deployed in the public debate over the referendum – the emotional discussion about sovereignty, which appealed to the heart, and the technical argument about cooperation, which appealed to reason. In using these two languages, the campaigners spoke past one another, failed to understand each other and divided Denmark into two opposing camps.

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: Countries > Denmark
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > political affairs > European elections/voting behavior
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels) > EPIN Commentaries
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2015 18:13
    Number of Pages: 2
    Last Modified: 10 Dec 2015 18:13
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/70142

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