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Europhobia

/ ˌjʊərəʊˈfəʊbɪə /

noun

  1. dislike for or hostility to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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After all, her opposition to the European Union wasn’t just about Europhobia; it had to do with her visceral Americophilia.

“There’s no europhobia here. Migration is not an issue. The Brexit slogan ‘Take back control’?

More ambitious literature has emerged from the lower political divisions of Europhobia.

They see an autocratic figure exploiting nationalist and neo-Islamist sentiment, xenophobia and Europhobia, and feelings of public insecurity brought on by next door’s Syrian crisis, to justify egregious human rights abuses, institutional vandalism and anti-EU, anti-western policies.

Goaded on in their Europhobia by a cohort of like-minded British conservatives for whom the EU represented an intolerable usurpation of national sovereignty, they saw dismantling the European project as a step forward for freedom and a means of weakening a competitor to American global hegemony.

From Slate

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