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University of Copenhagen Associate Professor in Political Science Declining Danish EU skepticism Kosiara-Pedersen, Karina Published in: Euroflections. Leading academics on the European elections 2019 Publication date: 2019 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Kosiara-Pedersen, K. (2019). Declining Danish EU skepticism. In N. Bolin, K. Falasca, M. Grusell, & L. Nord (Eds.), Euroflections. Leading academics on the European elections 2019 (pp. 75). Mittuniversitetet. Download date: 25. sep.. 2021 Editors: Niklas Bolin Kajsa Falasca Marie Grusell Lars Nord Leading academics on the European elections 2019 1 DEMICOM-report nr 40 Read the electronic version of Euroflections at www.euroflections.se Editors Niklas Bolin Kajsa Falasca Marie Grusell Lars Nord Publisher Mittuniversitetet, Demicom, Sundsvall, Sverige Holmgatan 10 851 70 Sundsvall Contact 010-142 80 00 [email protected] www.facebook.com/mittuniversitetet www.twitter.com/mittuni www.instagram.com/mittuniversitetet Design and layout Accidens Kommunikation ISBN: 978-91-88527-70-7 This is Euroflections Euroflections is an academic report on the European elections 2019. With Euroflections we want to provide the public with interesting reflections on the election campaigns and their main actors, namely the voters, the parties and the media. In total, more than 70 experts in political science and political communication representing almost every EU country offer insightful analyses of campaign developments and electoral outcomes. Some contributions are one-country studies, while others are written from comparative or thematic perspectives. Euroflections is intended to fill a gap in European elections reporting and research. The report is not as fast as news media analyses and social media comments published immediately when the electoral outcome is known. On the other hand, these texts are produced much faster than standard academic works. The basic idea of Euroflections is thus to combine the best of speed and smartness. Whether we achieve this difficult goal or not is finally up to our readers to find out. Euroflections is based on a concept we first developed during the Swedish National Elections 2018. We were also deeply inspired by previous productions from UK scholars from Bournemouth University who have produced similar reports on UK and US elections. We would like to thank them and all other col- leagues who made this fascinating project possible by delivering their brilliant thoughts on European Elections 2019 just in time. We also like to express our gratitude to Mid Sweden University for funding this project. Finally, we are still a bit concerned about using the word Euroflections as we are non-native English speakers and did not find the term in any available dictionaries. However, we have started to get used to it, and in fact it sounds ‘better’ for every time we use it. Sundsvall, Sweden in June 2019 The Editors Niklas Bolin, Kajsa Falasca, Marie Grusell & Lars Nord Introduction 8 The context 12 A sign of strength for EU legitimacy 13 Jonas Tallberg 1 The bull in the china shop 14 Gabor Toka Hong Kong and the EU’s normative reach in Asia 15 Anna Michalski How the elections to the European parliament fell short of providing alternatives 16 Thomas Persson Political market-orientation in EP elections 17 Jesper Strömbäck Spitzenkandidaten – make or break? 18 Göran von Sydow The most polarising issues in the EU party system 19 Andres Reiljan The end of the big-party era? 20 Niklas Bolin From nostalgia for the past to longing for the future 21 Auksė Balčytienė No democracy without parties? The absence of EU-level agendas in the Finnish campaign 22 Vesa Koskimaa Populism is dead! Long live the far right! 23 Cas Mudde The radical left in the 2019 European parliament elections: 25 an electoral defeat and a cautionary tale Luis Ramiro Party-based hard euroscepticism in the 2019 European parliament elections 26 Paul Taggart The campaign 28 The ‘Lead candidates’ & the European Commission presidenc y. Are they (dis)co nnected? 29 Anastasia Deligiaouri 2 Nothing normal in Austria 30 Josef Trappel Bulgaria: Low turnout because of insufficient European debate 31 Lilia Raycheva The imitation game? EP election campaign in the Czech Republic 32 Vaclav Stetka Estonia: Europe on the agenda but not at the core of the campaign 34 Martin Mölder Finland: European elections in the shadow of national politics 35 Tapio Raunio France: A confirmation of the 2017 reshuffling of french politics 36 Philippe Maarek The European election in Germany. The Greta effect? 37 Christina Holtz-Bacha Dealing with the outliers 38 Stylianos Papathanassopoulos Poland: Mobilized, divided and EU-positive 39 Beata Klimkiewicz & Agnieszka Szymanska Dispatches from the EU’s ’poster boy’: The EP 2019 elections in Portugal 40 Carlos Jalali Did we just do it again? A summary of the Slovenian EP elections 41 Tomaž Deželan & Nina Vombergar More or less EU – still the fundamental conflict in Sweden 42 Magnus Blomgren United Kingdom 2019 – the election that wasn’t supposed to be 43 Paul Webb An EP election in the shadow of a general election 44 Flemming Juul Christiansen The citizens 45 Voter psychology in the age of anger: UK 2019 46 Darren Lilleker 3 Second thoughts on second-order elections 47 Lars Nord A review of the eurosceptic breakthrough hypothesis 48 James Wilhelm European elections gradually becoming less ‘second-order’ in Ireland 49 Rory Costello The Swedish European parliament election 2019 50 Linda Berg & Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson European elections 2019 – the Romanian story 52 Gabriela Borz European parliamentary elections of 2019 in Hungary 53 Jolán Róka EP elections as the forerunner of the Polish parliamentary elections 54 Maciej Hartliński The decline of Social Democracy in Western Europe 55 Uwe Jun Public’s perception of the EU and turnout in the EP election 56 Olga Gyarfasova Comparing the EU attitudes of Swedish party members before and after Brexit 57 Jonathan Polk The parties 58 Green wave or populist surge? 59 Sarah de Lange 4 Will radical right populists finally all sit together in the new European parliament? 61 Duncan McDonnell The Group of the European People’s party: Biggest again 62 Karl Magnus Johansson Support for the far right in the EP elections: What do the results mean for European politics? 63 Sofia Vasilopoulou Eurosceptic parties at the 2019 elections: A relative success 64 Nathalie Brack New parties in the European parliament 65 Sofie Blombäck EP elections in Portugal 2019: A stage rehearsal for the October legislative elections 66 Marina Costa Lobo Spain: A clear centre-left victory 67 Karen Arriaza Ibarra The 2019 EP elections in France: Second (dis)order elections? 68 Thierry Chopin & Giulia Sandri Do europarties matter? The (scarce) level of europartization of the Italian parties 69 Enrico Calossi, Stella Gianfreda & Eugenio Pizzimenti The first defeat of populists: The case of Greece 70 Panos Koliastasis The German party system falling apart 71 Thomas Poguntke Belgium: Increasing polarization at the heart of Europe, but not over Europe 72 Caroline Close Dutch voters choose Europe 73 Gerrit Voerman Britain: Political parties polarising 74 Nicholas Aylott Declining Danish EU skepticism 75 Karina Kosiara-Pedersen The European elections 2019 in Finland – not even a second-order election 76 Kim Strandberg & Thomas Karv The media 77 Disinformation, data, manipulation and the European elections of 2019 78 Damian Tambini 5 Fake news: Social media giants did not do enough 79 Christian Nounkeu Social media use by main EU political parties during EP elections 2019 80 Chiara Valentini Communication strategies of political actors in the 2019 European elections in Italy 82 Cristopher Cepernich Campaigning for Europe - posters, ads and social media in the 2019 European elections 83 Bengt Johansson & Edoardo Novelli The “Spitzenkandidaten” in the media: A comparative perspective 84 Katjana Gattermann The challenge of building a public connection 85 Zrinjka Peruško Portugal: Politics as usual but with a green touch 86 Joaquim Fidalgo A crowded political communication agenda: The EP election in Danish news media 87 Nete Nørgaard Kristensen A misfitting media logic: 88 How Dutch media failed to fulfil their task in reporting on the EP elections Rens Vliegenthart Introduction Niklas Bolin Kajsa Falasca Mid Sweden University Mid Sweden University Associate Professor in Political Science Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Science Mail: [email protected] Twitter: @NiklasBolin Mail: [email protected] Twitter: @kajsafalasca More like 28 national elections than one European election Migration, Brexit and Trump. There is no doubt that recent Figure 1. Top Campaign Issues, 2018 and 2019 years have been extremely turbulent and challenging for the (% of EU citizens giving priority to the issue) European Union. Consequently, the European election cam- paign context in 2019 was very different from the previous Protection of personal data one five years ago. In the fall of 2015 the huge migration flows from the Midd- Protection of external borders le East and Africa to Europe took many EU leaders by great surprise, and showed that hitherto commonly agreed princip- Security and defence policy les to handle such situation were not possible to implement. Member states were deeply split on effective immigration po- The way the EU should be working in the future licies, and the polarized positions on this issue have remained as an important political controversy within the union. Consumer
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