Positioning Central and Eastern Europe in the EU's Emerging Core-Periphery Cleavage

Abstract

The Central and Eastern European countries are particularly affected by the multidimensional horizontal and vertical differentiation which has occurred both within the eurozone and the wider EU. Research on the EU has however predominantly concentrated on examining the regional transformation processes in these countries and has neglected their potential future role as agenda-setters. The recent migrant crisis has shown that the CEE countries are slowly but certainly transforming themselves from predominantly passive policy-takers towards adopting a more active role in trying to shape the EU’s governance agenda. The panel will offer an analysis of how the CEE countries position themselves in the EU’s changing internal and external EU environment through the examination of national economic, political and social transformation processes in the region and the resulting varieties of strategic interests of these countries in the EU. A special emphasis will be put on the role of the coordinated Visegrád-4 cooperation between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Title	Details
Perpetual crises, the return of geopolitics and the emergence of a new normalcy in Central Europe	View Paper Details
Central European Relations in Turbulent Times	View Paper Details
Regional defence cooperation: the V4 EU Battlegroup	View Paper Details
Democracy Control in the European Union	View Paper Details
European Enlargement in Times of Crisis: Is the EU Building Borders?	View Paper Details