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The United Kingdom: Free-marketeers and their divorce from the European Union

In: Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe

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The United Kingdom is treated as a special case in this study since the process of Brexit sets new standards in the external differentiated integration arrangements. The Brexit referendum itself and the negotiations launched in line with Article 50 (TUE) acted as a game-changer in European differentiation. The UK used to be a special case, and a kind of laboratory of differentiation, since it was always a society strongly diversified internally as regards the attitudes and preferences towards differentiated integration in Europe. London, Scotland, and Northern Ireland remained notoriously pro-EU, whereas the rest of England as well as Wales represented much more Eurosceptic views. This chapter reconstructs the main nuances of the UK’s position on the map of differentiated integration as well as shedding some light on the liberal market economy model that is practised in the United Kingdom as a foundation of the British incompatibility with the continental Europe.

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  • ., 2024. "The United Kingdom: Free-marketeers and their divorce from the European Union," Chapters, in: Varieties of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Differentiated Integration in Europe, chapter 6, pages 125-145, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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