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Europe in Peril

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In July 2005, four bombs exploded in London. This act of terrorism created fear and caused disruption to the lives of Londoners; foreign tourists decided to cancel their vacations to the British capital. That autumn, the UK government presided over the European Council of Ministers. On 7 September, Charles Clarke, at the time British Home Secretary, made a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The European Union (EU), he said, ‘has been a massive source for good’; however, not all people, especially not the British, were convinced of the virtue of the European project. The reason why, he stated, was that the EU did not seem to offer practical solutions to pressing problems such as terrorism. For Clarke, the EU should earn its citizens’ approval and satisfy their demands for security and protection against organized crime. The EU needed to offer its citizens protection from what they feared. Adopting Clarke’s argument is also a feasible means to endorse popular commitment to the European project.

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  1. Anders Hellström
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Lund University, Sweden

    Bo Petersson (Professor of Political Science, Deputy Head of the Centre for European Studies) (Professor of Political Science, Deputy Head of the Centre for European Studies)

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

    Katharine Tyler (Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity) (Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity)

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Hellström, A. (2008). Europe in Peril. In: Petersson, B., Tyler, K. (eds) Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582644_3

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