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This chapter argues that we have moved beyond mere ‘awkwardness’ in UK-European Union relations and into something new. This argument is driven in part by a sense that what observers call the ‘Europeanization’ of British politics has gone so far that European integration has altered the face of British politics in a fundamental way. It is also driven by the observation that it is increasingly difficult to see the politics of European integration and British disintegration as distinct and separate processes.
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Wellings, B. (2015). ‘Beyond Awkwardness: England, the European Union and the End of Integration’. In: Tournier-Sol, K., Gifford, C. (eds) The UK Challenge to Europeanization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488169_3
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