The article examines the impact of the new European Union member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) during the period 2004-2013. This article specifically addresses the agricultural policy preferences of the newcomers, emerging coalitions and voting behaviours in the Council of Agricultural Ministers on CAP issues. The analysis...
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The fiscal rules of the Stability and Growth Pact on deficit and debt have become the focus of many scholarly works in the past 15 years. The study of domestic fiscal rules, however, has remained a neglected part of research. The new Treaty on the EMU’s Stability, Cooperation and Governance (TSCG) makes the analysis of...
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This paper deals with national representations of the Hungarian minority from Transylvania and its group boundaries within the context of the Hungarian and Romanian nation. The main empirical source is represented by qualitative data, based on a focus group analysis from 2009. It analyses the ways in which Hungarians from Transylvania reconstruct national group boundaries...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the discourse of Vaclav Klaus on European integration by analysing his discourse on the euro during his term of office as President of the Czech Republic. The authors apply critical discourse analysis to selected speeches by Klaus, using their findings to analyse Klaus’s position on the Euro and European integration...
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The Slovenian political arena has been marked with historically based polarization, relative inefficiency in achieving consensus and a positive contribution to socio-economic development and stability in the country. The present article examines the reflection of these trends in political communication over the web and via Twitter. Using qualitative data analysis and content analysis we first...
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Bahgat Korany, Rabab El-Mahdi, Arab Spring in Egypt. Revolution and Beyond (Cairo & New York: The American University in Cairo Press,...
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Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio (eds.), International Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan,...
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