The thesis studies the most recent debate on the issue of democratic backsliding in Hungary, and more specifically, if a rhetoric of inaction was dominant in the plenary debate of the European Parliament. Democratic backsliding is a crucial topic to research in the context of the European Parliament’s recent attempts to take a more active role in d...
Published in European Studies
In this article, I seek to examine how the legal and political changes introduced by the European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum enhance the legal protection of refugees and asylum seekers fleeing to the EU territory across the central Mediterranean migration route. Empirically drawing on the discourse of the European Commission represent...
This paper highlights the role of supply chain linkages for the transmission of COVID-19 induced shocks based on the monthly trade of the European Union Member States during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the framework of the gravity model, we find an overall decline of over 20% in trade among EU countries following the COVID-19 out...
Published in Zeitschrift für Slawistik
In this paper we critically analyse how the identity of the Western Balkans (WB) has been metaphorically conceptualised in the latest stages of the EU integration processes in a corpus of internet news articles recently posted in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina. Unlike the accession processes of the former membership candidates from E...
Evropská unie a Spojené státy americké jsou důležitými ekonomickými celky v rámci globalizovaného světového obchodu. Jsou si také důležité vzájemně, což dokazuje vysoký podíl společného obchodu na celkovém obchodu obou mocností. V jejich vztahu se však vyskytují, a to pod různými záminkami, obchodní protekcionistické bariéry, které zpomalují vzájem...
Published in Pólemos
Brexit is very much about the boundaries of law and government. Whatever else it may be, it is clearly a legal phenomenon. In this article, I explore how both the phenomenon of Brexit (its desire to reassert national boundaries from an EU seemingly bent on dissolving them), and that of the EU (a pluralist community, with membership inevitably erodi...
The objective of this study is to conduct an analysis of regional development and competitiveness in the EU and Latvia under current conditions of economic globalization. This paper makes an attempt to evaluate a theory of regional development and regional competitiveness concept in relation to regional competitiveness in the light of current globa...
This thesis aims to analyse and discuss the prospects for an implementation of the European Commissions’ suggested reformations to the Dublin Regulation, based on the models of flexible integration: multi-speed, concentric circles and à la carte integration. To achieve this six different potential scenarios are constructed with regards to several p...
Sammanfattning Med inspiration från Maarten A. Hajer (1995) kommer detta arbete att analysera och försöka klarlägga hur miljö och rättvisefrågor kommer till uttryck i den utvecklingspolitik som sker ur ett samtida perspektiv på EU-nivå. I detta fall med ett fokus på EUROPA 2020, ”En strategi för smart och hållbar tillväxt för alla”. Vilket analyser...
Published in International Politics
In an era of emerging powers and growing interconnectedness, transatlantic relations have lost their bearings. Elaborating a paradigm replacing the Cold War-era notion of a community based on shared interests and identity is, however, an exercise fraught with problems. The empirical evidence is contrasting: signs of estrangement, such as the US ‘pi...
