Visegrad Four and EU Differentiated Integration : Activities, Perception and Self-Perception after the Refugee Crisis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429054136-35/" target="_blank" >https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429054136-35/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429054136-35" target="_blank" >10.4324/9780429054136-35</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Visegrad Four and EU Differentiated Integration : Activities, Perception and Self-Perception after the Refugee Crisis

Original language description

There has been a growing discussion on the unity and internal integrity of the EU in recent years. The Visegrad Four group (V4) has played a somewhat ambiguous role in this debate. Looking at the literature and current political events, there seem to be two competing views. Whereas the first view is rather skepticalsceptical about the V4’s ability to have a coherent impact on European integration, the second perceives the V4 as one of the main sources of the current EU’´s problems. This chapter contributes to this discussion by adding a systematic analysis of the V4’s ability to promote a different Europe. It looks not only at the activities of the V4 (and its members), but it also considers the perception of the V4 by its EU partners. Using findings from three case studies – the migration crisis, Brexit and the debate on the future of the EU – it concludes that as activities at the group level are concerned, the V4 as a compact group is a myth. Moving to the perception dimension, the V4 seems to be a more influential “brand” in this regard than it is an active player. But more often than as a compact, four-member group, it appears to be recognized as 2+2 grouping where the first “2” stands for the Czech Republic and Slovakia and the second for Poland and Hungary.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-05612S" target="_blank" >GA18-05612S: United in Differences: Visegrad Contribution To EU Differentiated Integration</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union

ISBN

9780367149659

Number of pages of the result

18

Pages from-to

519-536

Number of pages of the book

749

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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