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REFLECTION OF V4 INTERESTS IN THE CONTEXT OF V4 PRESIDENCIES IN THE ENLARGING AND REFORMING EUROPEAN UNION AS A PREREQUISITE FOR AGENDA-SHAPING
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Recent experience of Presidencies in the Council of the European Union was characterised by direct participation of V4 countries: the Czech Republic (2009), Hungary (2011) and Poland (2011). Lessons learned also suggest that Member States of the European Union might remain in the spotlight even after completion of their Presidencies. Moreover, in the (geo)strategic regional context, the European Union and its enlargement process open up to the potential and synergies of regional initiatives. Multidisciplinary application to the scope of the paper – represented by the concept of the enlarging European Union just like related to the (retrospective and perspective of the) reforming European Union – is mirrored in geopolitics and geo-economics, i.e. (geo)political and (geo-)economic Copenhagen criteria. Holistic approach to the complexity of the European Union reality facilitates added value of conclusions resulting from qualitative hypothesis testing (assuming the Slovak Republic will carry on with the agenda of earlier Presidencies, namely the 2009 Czech Presidency as well as the 2011 Hungarian and Polish Presidencies in the Council of the European Union to allow continuity of the V4 agenda). Fulfilment of the paper's objective is complementary to the paper MACRO-REGIONAL STRATEGIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION THROUGH THE PRISM OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY GEO-HETEROGENEITY in terms of emphasis placed on distinction between endogenous/exogenous geopolitical issues along with endogenous/exogenous geo-economic aspects. Council Presidency agenda designed in coordination by a trio of European Union Member States for a period of 18 months since 2007 and its analysis in the framework of agenda-setting leads to conclusions and recommendations formulated vis-a-vis the 2016 Slovak Presidency in the Council of the European Union; furthermore, besides Central European and Visegrad Group representation, priorities of the 2016 Slovak Presidency will also adhere to the Benelux just like the Mediterranean context, implied by the 2016 – 2017 Netherlands – Slovakia – Malta Presidency troika.
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