From Hard Consensus to Soft Euroscepticism: Attitudes of Croatian MPs on EU Integration
Journal: Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
Year: 2016

In this article, we offer the first systematic study of the attitudes of Croatian MPs about various aspects of Europeanness. Following the overwhelming elite consensus in 2012, when Croatia was about to join, MPs are still relatively satisfied with the EU in 2014. We argue beneficiary member mindset prevails among Croatian MPs suppressing any greater degree of Euroscepticism. However, ‘soft Euroscepticism’ is present, especially among right wing HDZ. Our analysis rests on 70 interviews with MPs