Much ado about little:: Continuity and change in the European Union Policy of the Spanish socialist Government (2004-8)

• Autores: Carlos Closa Montero
• Localización: Spain's "Second Transition"?: The socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero / coord. por Bonnie N. Field, 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-55052-9, págs. 125-140
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • the european Union (EU) policy of the Zapatero government (2004-8) combined continuity with the socialist policies of the 1990s with some new additions in the form of a commitment to domestic constitutional reform, including a reference to the EU in the Spanish constitution. The socialists' EU policy also manifested important continuities with the prior Popular Party governments. The use of a referendum to ratify the EU constitution, thought decided by the Socialist government, has a large domestic consensus and fitted easily with Zapatero replublican preferences. Even thought change occurred, it is difficult to argue that it represented a second transition.