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The European Union is composed of states, yet the political parties in the stateless nations have (with some past exceptions) looked eagerly to the EU as a source of support both political and financial. Why are regions pro-EU, when at first sight it might seem that since they want to reduce national powers over themselves they should not want to substitute European Union control. In fact, these regions are in most cases not trying to recover the powers their states have already ceded to the EU, but to have a greater say in EU decisions in these power areas. In their national contexts they seek rather to enlarge for themselves powers still reserved to the larger nation. These powers (notably taxation) do not belong to the EU.
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Notes
See Charlie Jeffery, “A Regional Rescue of the Nation-State: Changing Regional Perspectives on Europe,” Europa Institute, Mitchell Working Paper Series 5/2007, www.law.ed.ac.uk/mitchellworkingpapers/papers.aspx (June 6, 2010), used with author’s permission; Carolyn Moore “15 years on the sidelines? The role of the EU Committee of the Regions reassessed,” unpublished paper delivered at the 2009 EUSA meeting, cited with author’s permission, c.s.moore@bham.ac.uk.
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Friend, J.W. (2012). The Stateless Nations and the European Union. In: Stateless Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008206_9
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