Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Markets versus morality -- Cultural norms and national identity -- The European Union and morality norms -- Diffusion of norms and adaptation of European standards -- Agent of change: movement of people -- Cracks in the morality frameworks -- Europeanization of norms -- Looking ahead -- 2 Binge drinking: the evolution of alcohol control policy in Finland -- Alcohol legislation, voluntary associations and prohibition -- The alcohol question in a broader context -- Institutions of the alcohol policy regime -- Ideas and rationalizing the commitment to temperance -- The impact of alcohol control policies -- Conclusion -- 3 Our greatest social problem: anti-alcohol policy in Sweden -- A detour: why no restrictive drinking measures in Denmark? -- A century of Swedish anti-alcohol activism and debate -- Bratt system: 1917-1955 -- Post-Bratt system: the creation of Systembolaget -- Rationalizing and preserving alcohol control policies -- Societal and state interests -- Ideas: rationalization of alcohol control policy -- Conclusion -- 4 Nordic morality meets the European Union -- The Nordic countries and the application to join the European Union -- The alcohol question in the EU -- After membership -- Court case: Allmänna Åklagaren vs. Harry Franzén (C-189/95) -- Domestic trends and external pressures -- Conclusion -- 5 Permissive pragmatism: drug control policy in the Netherlands -- Detour: Protestant nations and intoxication -- Institutions: law enforcement and drug policy in the 1970s -- Revision of the 1919 Opium Act in 1976 -- Harm reduction in the 1980s -- Effectiveness of drug policy -- Contradictions and ambiguities -- Conclusion -- 6 Harm reduction meets the EU: from public health to public order -- Constraints by Europe on national drug policy.

Diplomatic tension and drug tourism -- Institutional and political ramifications -- Conclusion -- 7 Irish moral conservatism and European sexual permissiveness -- Catholic influence in Irish politics and institutions -- Catholic ethics and sexuality -- Abortion -- European membership and Irish law -- Pyrrhic victory -- Value change and encounters with the EU -- Conclusion -- 8 The emergence of a European morality? -- Endurance of national norms -- Why change in the 1990s? -- Convergence and divergence -- European integration and cultural distinctiveness -- Bibliography -- Index.