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Breaching the EU Governance by Decompression

HAVLÍK, Vratislav and Vít HLOUŠEK

Basic information

Original name

Breaching the EU Governance by Decompression

Authors

HAVLÍK, Vratislav (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Vít HLOUŠEK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

26th Annual Central European Political Science Association conference : “Democracy after coronavirus: facing new political reality”. 2-3 June 2022, Bled, Slovenia, 2022

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

Slovenia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/22:00129330

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

Decompression; Differentiated Integration; Politicisation of the EU

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International impact
Změněno: 4/4/2023 15:06, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Abstract

V originále

This conceptual paper introduces the concept of decompression as a specific process distinguished from disintegration. It argues that the difference between disintegration and decompression is not intensity but quality. Decompression is not a softer version of disintegration but a distinctive phenomenon. We will demonstrate that Euroscepticism, a necessary condition of disintegration, does not play a role in decompression. We define decompression as a sudden violation of an EU rule or rules by a member state, which leads to immediate disruption of shared trust in a basic EU policy or principle. In the case of a crisis, we can see a ‘compression’, pressure within the EU to find a common solution. Decompression is a relaxation of this pressure triggering the rejection or non-application of an EU policy or principle in reaction to changes external to the political equilibrium established among the levels of the EU and the member states’ polities.

Links

GA22-15856S, research and development project
Name: Stranický euroskepticismus v době krize
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Party Euroscepticism in times of crisis