Trust in the European Union in Challenging Times

Part of the Interdisciplinary European Studies collection Brings together scholars from economics, law, and political science Offers important policy advice based on issues surrounding trust in the EU

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Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt is Professor of European Law at Stockholm University, Sweden and Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Legal Science (2015-2018). She is currently Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (2017-2018). Her research is in the area of European Economic Law with a focus on the impact of Europeanisation on national law and institutions. She is Chair of the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies.

Niklas Bremberg is Research Coordinator for the Swedish Network of European Studies in Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His research focuses on international practice theory, security communities and EU foreign and security policy. He has been visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, the University of Liverpool and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Anna Michalski is Associate Professor at the Department ofGovernment, Uppsala University, Sweden. She has previously held academic positions at the School of International Relations and Administrative Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai and the Department of Political Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has also held positions at a number research institutes in Europe and beyond as well as at the European Commission's Forward Studies Unit. She is chair of the Swedish Network of European Studies in Political Science.

Lars Oxelheim is Professor of International Business and Finance at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway and affiliated with Knut Wicksell Center for Financial Studies (KWC), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm Sweden; and Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is founding chairman of the Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Trust in the European Union: what is it and how does it matter?; Antonina Bakardijeva Engelbrekt, Niklas Bremberg, Anna Michalski & Lars Oxelheim.- Chapter 2. What explains the lack of trust in the EU among its member states? A constitutional analysis of the EU's 'value crisis'; Joakim Nergelius*.-* Chapter 3. Perspective on the Eastern enlargement: triumph of the EU or seed of its destruction?; Bo Petersson*.-* Chapter4. Citizens' trust in the EU as a political system; Linda Berg*.-* Chapter 5. Is migration threatening social trust in Europe?; Andreas Bergh*.-* Chapter 6. Trust in the euro and the EU's banking union after the financial crisis; Clas Wihlborg & Sarkis J. Khoury*.-* Chapter 7. The question of trust in EU criminal caw cooperation: a constitutional perspective; Ester Herlin-Karnell*.-* Chapter 8. Mutual trust in civil justice cooperation in the EU; Eva Storskrubb.- Chapter 9. The importance of trust in a digital Europe: reflections on the sharing economy and blockchains; Robin Teigland, Håkan Holmberg & Anna Felländer*.-* Chapter 10. Trust and crises in the EU: exit, voice and loyalty; Göran von Sydow.