The Czech and Slovenian EU presidencies in a comparative perspective
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491_9789089790514
Slovenia and Czech Republic are the first post-communist states that took over the six month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Analysing these two presidencies the book offers one of the first comparative analyses of the EU experience of new, post-communist EU members and the first analysis of their EU presidency experience. It develops a new typology of EU presidency and uses a comprehensive set of analytical tools which are applied to the investigation of case studies dealing with the key issues of each presidency such as administrative co-ordination, economic policy, energy policy, EU enlargement, and justice and home affairs co-operation.TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Comparing the EU presidencies: a pragmatic perspective - Petr Drulák 1Institutional and political background 2. The Czech Republic as an EU-member: four dimensions of Europeanization - Mats Braun 3. Slovenia as an EU-member: a Euroenthusiastic society and political elite - Ladislav Cabada and Šárka Waisová 4. From making troubles to compliance: the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and the Czech EU Presidency - Šárka Matejková 5. Public support taken for granted: the Slovenian EU Presidency, the democratic deficit, and the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty - Zlatko Šabic 6. The executive co-ordination of the Czech EU Presidency: unexpectedly effective - Jan Karlas 7. The executive co-ordination of the Slovenian EU Presidency: an honest broker - Damjan Lajh Political priorities8. Achieving unachievable goals? Impartiality, effectiveness, crisis and economic priorities of the Czech EU Presidency - Štepánka Zemanová and Josef Abrhám 9. Slovenia and the Lisbon Strategy: a road to a knowledge economy? - Maja Bucar and Boštjan Udovic 10. Europeanists in spite of themselves: energy as an Atlanticist priority of the Czech EU Presidency - Vít Strítecký 11. An industrious but cautious pupil: Slovenias capacity to lead in the midst of changing Euro
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