Publication details
Citizens of Visegrad countries : Alternative Europeans?
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Public support represents key element for the sustainability of the European integration at least since 1992 when the European Community has been transformed in the more politicized European Union. Hand in hand with this necessity, which reflected slow disappearing of previously existing permissive consensus, alternative views of European integration have started to emerge across the European Union. Euroscepticism – an umbrella term covering them – has gained prominence particularly in the Central and Eastern countries which joined the European Union in 2004. This paper analyses variables influencing public Euroscepticism and its development in Visegrad countries. Its aim is twofold. For the first, it seeks to reveal whether there is an common pattern in Visegrad countries public Euroscepticism which could be interpreted as leading to the construction of „alternative Europeans“ in these countries. Do Eurosceptics in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia share the same characteristics and motivations? Are there any similar reasons across Visegrad countries public which would explain resistance towards the European integration? For the second, it analyses how public Euroscepticism in Visegrad countries developed between 2004 (time of accession of these countries to the European Union) and 2016 (a year when the citizens of Visegrad countries can be considered as experienced Europeans) in order to assess how these pattern changed. |