{"title":"The Portuguese Radical Left and Europe: The Case of the PCP","authors":"Carlos Cunha","doi":"10.14198/pasado2022.24.03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes a qualitative, rhetorical and historical approach with a view to analyzing the Portuguese Communist Party’s (PCP) long-term, oppositional stance and tactics towards European integration (EI) by briefly covering early opposition, while focusing on 1990s onward stages. The economic crises (Euro Crisis 2008/2009 and Pandemic) Portugal faces, and the rigid, neo-liberal solutions imposed by the European Union, have led the PCP to feel its constant criticisms of increased federalism have been justified. At its XXI Congress in 2020, the PCP used the same rhetorical arguments as it had in the past, including that the only solution is to break with the right’s pro-EU policies.","PeriodicalId":42307,"journal":{"name":"Pasado y Memoria-Revista de Historia Contemporanea","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pasado y Memoria-Revista de Historia Contemporanea","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14198/pasado2022.24.03","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper takes a qualitative, rhetorical and historical approach with a view to analyzing the Portuguese Communist Party’s (PCP) long-term, oppositional stance and tactics towards European integration (EI) by briefly covering early opposition, while focusing on 1990s onward stages. The economic crises (Euro Crisis 2008/2009 and Pandemic) Portugal faces, and the rigid, neo-liberal solutions imposed by the European Union, have led the PCP to feel its constant criticisms of increased federalism have been justified. At its XXI Congress in 2020, the PCP used the same rhetorical arguments as it had in the past, including that the only solution is to break with the right’s pro-EU policies.
期刊介绍：
Pasado y Memoria is aimed at historians and social scientists specialised in Contemporary History. The journal intends to encourage communication in the field of analysis and interpretation of historical events and processes in the contemporary world. It is precisely within the definition of this field of study that the sense of this journal’s title lies: the past (pasado) is the sphere studied by history while memory (memoria) is one of the factors that constitute our knowledge about the recent past.
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