The Czech Approach to EU Enlargement: Full Steam Ahead!
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Alternative codes found
RIV/49777513:23330/24:43971068
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-43234-7_6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-43234-7_6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43234-7_6" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-43234-7_6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Czech Approach to EU Enlargement: Full Steam Ahead!
Original language description
Czechia has traditionally been one of the strongest supporters of further European Union (EU) enlargement. This is not only because the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe are long-term priorities within Czech foreign policy, but also because it is in the country’s interests to bring long-term stability to these regions in Czechia’s broader neighbourhood. Specifically, the Czech enlargement strategy assumes a more comprehensive approach, as by keeping these states on a trajectory of gradual rapprochement with the EU, it also aims at preventing the strengthening of other actors’ influence such as, but not limited to, Russia and China. This approach builds on the region’s proximity and strategic importance as well as its familiarity and traditionally good relations with these countries. In the context of events in Ukraine, Czechia increasingly views enlargement as a geostrategic investment. Czech diplomacy believes that enlargement is not just a matter of formally fulfilling the criteria, but that in the new geopolitical situation, the values of belonging to the West are more important than ever. Hence, whereas previously Czech support for enlargement was mainly motivated by economic interests and for some Eurosceptic political elites it was a welcome opportunity to ‘dilute’ integration, today a values-based attitude prevails.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Enlargement and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals
ISBN
978-3-031-43233-0
Number of pages of the result
5
Pages from-to
23-27
Number of pages of the book
183
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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