Abstract
European integration is at the crossroads. A growing divide in terms of politics, society, economy and culture is emerging in the European Union. The peripheralization of central, eastern and southern Europe after 2008 due to the finance crisis has changed the perception of merits of being member of European Union. A growing instrumental Eurosecpticism has become more prominent in most central, eastern and southern European countries. Although the divide between core and periphery Europe became more prominent after 2008, this chapter argues that a divergence between rich and poor countries started already at the beginning of the millennium. The cleavage between rich net payer member-states and poor net receivers has certainly contributed to the consolidation of a centre-periphery divide.
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