The ambiguity of resistance: Opposition to neoliberalism in Europe

Abstract

While there are emergent signs of anti-neoliberal resistance to EU policies and practices, this resistance remains ambiguous and fractured, often unable or unwilling to confront neoliberal European governance at the level of Europe itself. This is partly due to the very substantive barriers to counter-hegemonic projects that the EU has put in place; but it also reflects a failure on the part of much of the resistance to adequately identify, and engage with, all of the terrain on which the battle against neoliberalism must be fought.