Responses of the Visegrad States to the Migration Crisis and the European Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 381-399
Author(s):  
Neriman Hocaoğlu Bahadır
Keyword(s):  
European Identity ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Eu

European identity is an identity constructed everyday within the lives of Europeans. The emergence of this identity can be traced back to the 1970s when it was first introduced in the Copenhagen Declaration on European Identity (1973). The identity has changed a lot with each enlargement of the EU. It has enriched and evolved. But its construction has not been completed, as it is a process with no end. The EU has faced many crises and one of them that challenges identity is migration. It is a test for the EU, its identity, way of life, and values. This chapter analyses if migration is a threat to EU identity, how it became a challenge, and how the actors respond to this challenge. To find out how it became a challenge and how the actors, especially the Visegrad States' political leaders, respond to this challenge, the discourses of political actors are evaluated.

scholarly journals National but European? Visual manifestations of Europe in national parties’ Euromanifestos since 1979

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 526-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Adrian Popa ◽  
Delia Dumitrescu
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
European Identity ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
European Project ◽  
European Values ◽  
Significant Effort ◽  
The Eu

The architects of the European project made a significant effort to create a set of symbols for the community (such as the EU flag, the map of Europe, the anthem, etc.), and recent evidence suggests that the main European values are nowadays spontaneously associated with them. We know little, however, about if and when national political actors choose to display these symbolic visual manifestations of Europe. In this study, we examine the presence of such symbols in parties’ Euromanifestos since the first European elections. The presence of EU community symbols is correlated with several factors, suggesting that the display is consistent both with a policy-driven and with a vote-seeking logic. We explore at length the implications of these results for future visual analysis of parties’ European messages and for the larger issue of European identity.

‘The Europe we want’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Eu

This chapter considers what kind of Europe we want, what does Europe stand for and who are ‘we’? It considers the importance for the EU of moving beyond the modern geopolitical dichotomy of insiders and outsiders and the EU’s failure to deal with the so-called migration ‘crisis’.

Lost in uncertainty: How the Euro crisis affected European identity constructions in national media discourses

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (6-8) ◽  
pp. 602-622
Author(s):  
Dennis Lichtenstein ◽  
Christiane Eilders
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Weekly Newspapers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Eu

The Euro crisis has revealed severe conflicts between EU member states and challenged a shared European identity. This article investigates how the crisis was reflected in identity constructions in media discourses in EU key countries. European identity construction is conceptualized as framing of the EU in favour or against belonging to the EU and togetherness with other members. Conducting a systematic content analysis of two weekly newspapers and magazines in Germany, France and the UK, we compare identity constructions between 2011 and 2014. Findings show that while support of belonging to the EU is low in general, the countries differ remarkably in terms of their sense of togetherness. This particularly applies to strong or weak political integration, market regulation or market freedom and financial stability or impulses for economic growth. The positions reflect long-term political conflicts between the countries but are also flexible enough to adapt to the particular event context.

scholarly journals Unia Europejska wobec Bałkanów Zachodnich w kontekście kryzysu migracyjnego w latach 2015‑2019

Politeja ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3(66)) ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Wawrzyniec Banach
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Accession Process ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Eu

European Union towards Western Balkans in the Context of Migration Crisis 2015‑2019 The aim of the article is to analyse the actions taken by the European Union towards the Western Balkans in the context of the migration crisis. The study assumes that the migration crisis was an important factor accelerating the accession process of the Western Balkan countries to the European Union. In order to fulfil the research goal, an analysis of sources (European Union documents) was conducted. The paper uses elements of the theory of the regional security complex as a theoretical framework. Firstly, the activities of the European Union before the migration crisis are discussed. Next, the paper focuses on presenting the course of the crisis on the Western Balkan route. The further part of the study discusses the actions taken by the EU towards the countries of the Western Balkans in response to the migration crisis.

scholarly journals Migration Crisis in the EU and Rethinking of Multiculturalism. The Papers of the “Round Table” Conference of the Lecturers and Students of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

2016 ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Dar'ya Borisovna Kazarinova ◽  
Aleksey Vyacheslavovich Teplov ◽  
Mikhail Sergeevich Ladygin ◽  
Nikolay Nikolaevich Yagodka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Eu

The paper dedicated to the “round-table” conference “Migration crisis in the EU and rethinking of multiculturalism: the European question and the German answer” which was organized by the Department of comparative politics of the Peoples` Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) and held on October 9 2015 on the faculty of the humanities and social sciences. Among the participants of the conference were the lecturers and the students of the PFUR.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION CRISIS ON EUROPE’S CULTURAL CONDITIONS: WHY ARE THE POLES ‘APPREHENSIVE’ ABOUT MUSLIMS?

2020 ◽  
pp. 313-335
Author(s):  
Anna М. Solarz
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Cultural Condition ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Science Of Religion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The 2015 immigration crisis revealed the weak cultural condition Europe finds itself in, given the adoption by a majority of states of a model for development that deliberately severs ties with common civilisational roots. However, while Poles do not really nurture prejudices against either Islam or immigrants, a decided majority of them voiced their unwillingness to accept new (mainly Muslim) arrivals, in the context of a solution to the above crisis the EU was intending to impose. A change of policy was thus forced upon the Union by Poland and other CEECs, given the latter’s strong guiding conviction that pursuit of a multicultural ideology leads to a weakening – rather than any improvement – in the condition of culture in Europe, and hence to a sapping of the continent’s power in the international relations sphere. As the crisis has made clear, the EU will probably have to start taking more account of preferences in this part of Europe. This means opportunities for the political science of religion to research the likelihood of a return to the Christian component of European identity, as well as the role this might play in improving the cultural condition of this part of the world.

scholarly journals Salomi Boukala. “European identity and the representation of Islam in the mainstream press: Argumentation and media discourse”

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Serafis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
Mainstream Press ◽  
The Eu

In her book European identity and the representation of Islam in the mainstream press: Argumentation and media discourse, Salomi Boukala offers us a thoroughly interdisciplinary and extremely timely scrutiny of print media communication in times of profound crises in Europe. Boukala interweaves Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Argumentation theory, employing also notions and principles coming from the fields of Political Sciences, Anthropology, (Cultural) Political Economy. In particular, the author examines how “specific [European] newspapers with opposite ideological background […] construct the European supranational identity via references to the EU and the representation of Islam as a common, European ‘Other’” (p. 7).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document