Sentences with phrase «increasing euroscepticism»

In these times of increasing euroscepticism, critics of the European Union often contest the Union's very raison d'être by referring to measures such as the «Bent Cucumber Regulation» and enquire after its right to legislate and adjudicate on areas that traditionally used to be within the scope of sovereign nation - states.

On the left and right there is increasing Euroscepticism, while parties of the centre, although they are generally more favourable to Europe than more extreme parties, are less positive that they have been in the past.

In development cooperation, an area of «shared» competences between the EU institutions and the member states, it has remained unexplored how economic recession, the sovereign debt crisis, austerity, the struggle in the eurozone and increasing Euroscepticism have affected the relationship between the EU and its member states.