Bogl\u00e1rka Koller<\/a> and Krisztina Arat\u00f3<\/p>\nIn: Comparative Eurpoean Politics (2025)<\/em><\/p>\nDOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1057\/s41295-025-00427-6<\/p>\n
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The Visegrad Group (V4), a unique subregional cooperation within the European Union, has experienced a negative shift following the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The Russian aggression in Ukraine also triggered another development in the EU. Enlargement has been halted since 2013 and has become the centre of attention again. The official candidate status was granted swiftly to Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, which also put the Western Balkans\u2019 future in the spotlight. This article aims to interpret the four Visegrad states\u2019 positions on the EU\u2019s enlargement policy and alterations in these by looking for explanatory causes in the 2014\u20132025 period. Enlargement is of high relevance in the region, not only because of the V4 countries\u2019 accession to the EU twenty years ago and of its complex, sometimes conflictual interactions with the EU institutions since then but also because the candidate countries are located in the immediate neighbourhood of the V4 region, that brings the geopolitical aspects of the policy in the spotlight. After conceptualizing the V4, process tracing methodology is applied to answer the question of the V4 states\u2019 view and influence on the enlargement policy of the EU. This article aims not to determine the future perspectives of the European Union\u2019s overall enlargement policy but to focus solely on the Visegrad countries. Still, the conclusions of this article can contribute to the general understanding of the debates on the future of enlargement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dysfunctional advocates? analysis of the Visegrad Group positions on the enlargement policy of the EU (2014\u20132025) Authors: Bogl\u00e1rka Koller and Krisztina Arat\u00f3 In: Comparative Eurpoean Politics (2025) DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1057\/s41295-025-00427-6 Abstract The Visegrad Group (V4), a unique subregional cooperation within the European Union, has experienced a negative shift following the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104,100],"tags":[281,247,676,677,675],"class_list":["post-11414","publikacio","type-publikacio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external-publications","category-publications","tag-enlargement","tag-european-union","tag-v4-en","tag-visegrad-cooperation-en","tag-visegrad-group-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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