Hasan has studied the EU referendums on Åland
The EU debates in the Åland Parliament during autumn 1994 were complex. Hasan Akintug, PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki, shows this clearly in his report “The referendums on Åland: An overview of the EU debates in the Åland parliament during autumn 1994”. Not much has been written about thetwo referendums of 1994 on the Ålands Islands prior to the entry into the European Union. A new report by Hasan Akintug analyses the parliamentary debates during the period between the Corfu summit on 24 of June 1994, in which Finland’s and Åland’s membership application was confirmed by the EU member states, and the final decision by the Åland parliament on 2 December 1994. What if it would have been a no “It is interesting that all political parties that finally voted for EU membership also expressed reservations during the process”, Akintug writes in his report. He was suprised that there was no negotiation or discussion about what would have happened if the result of the EU referendum had been a no. 25 years of EU membership Hasan Akintug’s report is published as the first of the outcomes of a yearlong study entitled “25 years of EU membership – Åland […]