Full of surprises, or surprisingly not? The peculiar case of Czech Brexit policy

Meislová, Monika Brusenbauch

doi:10.1080/23745118.2019.1612826

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“…There was, overall, a shared opinion among Czech political leaders that a Brexit would harm both European and Czech interests. On the other hand, during David Cameron’s EU renegotiations, the Czech Republic aligned strongly with other Visegrad Group countries’ position of fierce opposition to Cameron’s proposals to put limits on EU migrants’ access to welfare benefits (Brusenbauch Meislová, 2019; Kaniok, 2017: 42; Kasáková, 2016: 238). As such, the Visegrad Group countries were portrayed as ‘a major obstacle to the British EU reform proposals’ (Pacher, 2016) and the ‘major stumbling block that thwarted David Cameron’s attempts’ (Foy and Byrne, 2016).…”

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Centenary celebrations meet a farewell party: British-Czech bilateral relations in the times of Brexit

Meislová

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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2019 marks an especially important year for British-Czech bilateral relations. As a year of both centenary celebrations of opening of the British Embassy in Prague and Brexit, it makes for a fascinating paradox: a symbol of a century-long continuity on one hand and a year of serious disruption on the other hand. Against this background, the overarching aim of this article is to investigate Brexit implications for British-Czech bilateral relations, placing this assessment in the context of the long-term evolution of these relations and relating it to debates within the scholarship on the effects of Brexit. At the same time, it addresses some of the wider political questions that will determine the nature of Brexit’s supposed effects on the future direction of individual bilateral relations between the UK and EU27 member states.

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Centenary celebrations meet a farewell party: British-Czech bilateral relations in the times of Brexit

Meislová

2019

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…With Brexit constituting "a two-way process involving 27 other member states" (Oliver 2016), it is essential to know how the UK's partners have been approaching it. While this area has been a compelling focus for scholarly attention (Brusenbauch Meislová 2020;Szent-Iványi 2018;Turner et al 2018;Usherwood and Kassim 2018), there has been comparatively little detailed academic analysis on the Brexit policies of CEE states. Thus, by examining the Czech and Hungarian framing of Brexit, this article aims to provide a detailed analysis of the topic.…”

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Exploitation Opportunities for Distant Crises: Political Framings of Brexit in the Czech Republic and Hungary

Meislová

Szent‐Iványi

2021

Problems of Post-Communism

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Brexit has been a major crisis facing the European integration process. The paper examines how Brexit was framed and exploited by two EU member state governments, Czechia and Hungary. We conceptualize Brexit as a "distant crisis" for these two countries: although it is likely to have significant impacts, these are uncertain and not immediate. Building on the crisis-framing literature, we apply frame analysis to examine governmental rhetoric and find that both governments have instrumentalized Brexit for internal purposes by pragmatically adapting their discursive positions on it to fit their political calculus on both domestic and European issues.

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A small state’s anticipation of institutional change: effects of the looming Brexit in the areas of the CSDP and internal market

Weiss

2019

European Security

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Small state's anticipation of institutional change: Effects of the looming Brexit in the area of the CSDP and internal marketBrexit will change the balance of power in the European Union. All countries will have to adjust it, but the issue is more pressing for small member states that are more dependent on international organisations than big states. This article studies how the institutional setting affects a small state's preparations for Brexit in the area of common security and defence policy and internal market. Contrary to the theoretical expectations, it shows that the Czech Republic, the small state under scrutiny, has invested more effort into a preventive adjustment in the supranational internal market policy than to the CSDP. This result is explained by the existence of alternative institutional frameworks that are expected to mitigate the impact of Brexit on EU's security and defence policy. It also suggests that while small states profit from the existence of strong institutions, they also face the risk of unmitigated impact when these institutions change.

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Full of surprises, or surprisingly not? The peculiar case of Czech Brexit policy

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Centenary celebrations meet a farewell party: British-Czech bilateral relations in the times of Brexit

Centenary celebrations meet a farewell party: British-Czech bilateral relations in the times of Brexit

Exploitation Opportunities for Distant Crises: Political Framings of Brexit in the Czech Republic and Hungary

A small state’s anticipation of institutional change: effects of the looming Brexit in the areas of the CSDP and internal market

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