Abstract
Abstract
This epilogue gives an overview of the road taken by European integration after the battle for a ‘social Europe’ was lost, from the mid-1980s until today; it then draws some conclusions regarding the reasons for this defeat. Some of its main causes were internal divergences within the European Left, its inability to truly unite and to consolidate an ‘alliance of the Left’ at European level, its failure to organize an efficient multilevel lobbying force against transnational capitalism, and problems of timing for its proposals, which often arrived late when free-market ideology was already on the rise and when the window of opportunity of the 1970s was closing. Above all, there was a lack of grassroots thrust, as European socialists and trade unions never managed to mobilize mass popular support to radically impose change at the European level.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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