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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Whose story about Europe? The problem of acceptance and legitimisation of the European project in the eyes of young people

2017, 2017 (43), No. 1

Paweł B. Borkowski

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

Marta Rojewska

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

Łukasz Zamęcki

0000-0002-2135-6415

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.1.17.5

Publication date

24.09.2017

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

Discipline

international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

This article reflects on the issue of legitimacy and attitudes of the young generation (16–19 years old) towards the European integration. The authors decided to divide the text into two parts, the first of which consists of the theoretical and historical approach to the problem of the legitimacy of European integration and the narrative about Europe, and the second presents the main conclusions and problems identified during the work of authors with the youth, and the implementation of the international Jean Monnet Network project MoreEU: More Europe to overcome the crisis. Confrontation of these two parts has made it clear that traditional justification of the legitimacy of the integration project does not speak to the contemporary youth, and that this is precisely in this age group that we can clearly see the crisis of the legitimacy of the European Union.

Keywords:

narrative about Europe,problem of legitimisation of the European integration,social reception of the European Union,youth in the debate on the future of the European Union

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