Naslov
Differentiated integration in the EU: What does Croatia want?

Autori
Božina Beroš, Marta ; Grdović Gnip, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta
Radovi u časopisima, znanstveni

Izvornik
Politics (2021)

Status rada
Online first

Ključne riječi
differentiated integration, EU policy, government, parliamentary debates

Sažetak
This article presents empirically substantiated answers on the salience of differentiated integration (DI) from the perspective of Croatian governments between 2004 and 2020. Considering DI’s relevance for the future of EU integration as well as the fact that DI was de facto adopted by the Croatian governments in order to maintain a healthy relationship with the EU, the main assumption is that DI – as a broad and multifaceted integration phenomenon – appears prominently in the domestic political discourse. By employing text mining and sentiment analysis on a corpus of 376 various governmental documents we answer, do governments talk about DI and specific DI mechanisms at a conceptual level? Which differentiated policy fields do they talk about most often? Our results show that DI has been – and remains – a low salience issue for Croatian governments over the last 15years, which is surprising considering that over this period, Croatia consolidated its position in the EU in the shadow of the ‘polycrisis’, also thanks to DI.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija, Politologija

POVEZANOST RADA