The Region of Central Europe - Institutional Demarcation. Considerations about the Possible Identity of Central Europe

If we deliberate in terms of Central Europe as a distinctive region with its own characteristics, then we cannot avoid the need for, inter alia, as well as the institutional specifications of the region in comparison to others in the neighbourhood – against Western and Eastern Europe. Is Central Europe a unique space with specific characters? Or this is a mistake of central European nations, which seeks to identify against the generalization of eastern European affiliation? There is something like a Central European identity? The institutionalization of the intermediate, or Central Europe is quite the explosive topic of how the west, to the east of this region. More specifically, the explosiveness of the gaining of the discussion rather of the East, because Russia refuses to acknowledge the specifics of this part of Europe with the fact that actually belong to the sphere of their geopolitical interests (Dugin 1999, 2009; Lukjanov, 2014) and, inter alia, due to certain aspects of the historical, ethnic and linguistic area. The west, on the contrary, is surprised by the emancipation efforts of central European companies gain visibility as a peculiar entity distinctive from the East, because they make us understand, as one set of Eastern Europe, and this, of course, we are talking about the western European societies. For the rest of the world is any partition of Europe under the resolution. Eric Hobsbawm (1989) sees in Central Europe only a political category, not geographical, not institutional. He speaks even of the rather prescriptive approach than positivist. Thus, we can understand the reflections on Central Europe as the emancipating efforts to break away from the East, as a confirmation of a possible Central European identity and build on the historic ties with the states included into the western circuit, such as mainly Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, France. It is necessary to focus both on the analysis of formal institutions, as well as development of informal institutions. For the definition of identity is necessary to work with similarity and differentiation between reference actors (Jenkins 2008). Finally, it shows that just the formal institutions such as legal systems, the status of churches and secularization, and the educational systems closer to more of the West than those of the informal. Institutional analysis of countries intervening in the Central European region has identified a group of states which exhibit the characteristics specific for Central Europe and which is distinguished mainly from Eastern European companies. It is next to Germany and Austria as the main determinant of the Central European development of five states - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, in total, thus the analysis covers seven countries.