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This book seeks to explore the current economic developments across Europe in relation to its apparent segmentation as disparities widen between core and periphery countries. However, in contrast to previous literature the scope of analysis is extended to Europe as a continent, rather than confining it to solely the European Union (EU). We believe this is crucial since a key aspect of the global financial crisis and Great Recession was to highlight the often pre-existing, and sometimes hidden, economic fault lines across the European continent, whether between north-south eurozone economies (e.g. Germany in relation to Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy) or in relation to those on its geographical boundaries possessing a complex relationship (e.g. Ukraine, Russia).
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Belgium, Denmark, France, Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden.
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Benelux, Scandinavian Committee for Legislative Cooperation, Joint Nordic Committee for Economic Cooperation.
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France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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The data in Table 1.3 excludes Croatia, which joined the EU on 1 July 2013; Lithuania is not counted as a eurozone country since they entered EMU on 1 January 2015.
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For the calculation of EP election turnout the initial ‘out-of-sequence’ EP elections of accession countries are counted as per the immediate prior EP election. Otherwise these results would be omitted from the quinquennial calculations.
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This excludes those member states that have joined the EU since 2004 that have only participated in a maximum of three EP elections to avoid bias in the subsequent analysis.
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Baimbridge, M., Litsios, I., Jackson, K., Lee, U.R. (2017). Segmentation Across Europe. In: The Segmentation of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59013-8_1
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