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Friday, July 31st, 2020
European Union Agenda in Serbia’s Party Politics: A Clash between Rationality and Identity Politics
This article argues that “identity politics” determines party positions and political orientations towards the EU agenda in Serbian party politics. In its attempt to analyse the underlying reasons and legitimation strategies of the Serbian parties towards the EU agenda, the research employs a thematic content analysis of documents of eight...
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Strategic or Identity-based Euroscepticism? The Euro Discourse of Vaclav Klaus
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...
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
Eurosceptics – enemies or a necessary part of European integration?
Abstract
Although it has been an important part of the academic discussion for more than 10 years, Euroscepticism (especially in connection with party politics) has not been so far adequately defined. The widely accepted definition given by Taggart and Szczerbiak, who has divided Euroscepticism between its “hard” and “soft” version, suffers...
