@inbook{5223101877af4a84b41d91fb8e2b4788,
title = "Denmark{\textquoteright}s Narrative on the EU: Between Pragmatism and Small State Activism",
abstract = "This chapter examines Denmark{\textquoteright}s European narrative and how the interplay between the possibility of influence and the risk of entrapment, and between Europeanist and Eurosceptic attitudes towards the EU, has affected its development. The chapter considers how the official narrative relates to wider views as expressed by public opinion, the results of elections to the Danish Parliament (Folketing) and the European Parliament and the outcome of the eight referendums held on the EU in Denmark. In particular, it focuses on the changes in the Danish narrative before and after the {\textquoteleft}no{\textquoteright} to the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992. Further, it reflects on how the Eurozone and refugee crises have affected Denmark{\textquoteright}s EU narrative. Since referendums and EU crises have contributed towards politicising the EU, the chapter concludes that Denmark{\textquoteright}s official narrative has been institutionalised in a manner best characterised as pragmatic stability with periods of activism.",
author = "Kelstrup, \{Jesper Dahl\}",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-19986-8\_8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-19985-1",
series = "Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "201--224",
editor = "Hussein Kassim and Adriaan Schout",
booktitle = "National Government Narratives of the EU",
edition = "1",
}