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Learning Curve of the Conditionality of the EU's Enlargement Policy - the Role of the "Good Neighborhood Principle" in the Case of Border Disputes.
Lipská, Jana ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
DP JANA LIPSKÁ Abstract The thesis examines the policy of good neighborliness as one of the conditions for the accession of (Balkan) countries to the EU. As it is an unanchored concept, the thesis should focus on its development and the possibility of its enforcement as a conditionality. It is its enforceability that the EU has at least partially achieved after the enlargement to Croatia in 2013, or by modifying the conditionality in 2018, when the settlement of bilateral disputes became a condition for the admission of the new state. This paper explains this change in conditionality and what led EU officials to make it. The EU has also changed its role in these disputes. It has moved from being an active mediator to a passive position from which it primarily motivates the parties involved in the dispute to resolve it. The EU demonstrates its role as a normative power, which is what it uses conditionality for. The basic premise is that previously the EU has tried to intervene more and resolve such disputes, while at the same time it accepted states that have not resolved them. The Union has learned from this and its policy has changed to less involvement but more emphasis on resolving such disputes. This thesis recalls the fundamental turning point that led to the decision of EU leaders, which was Croatia's...
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Croatia-Slovenia Border Dispute in the Bay of Piran and Reasons of Reaction of both parties to final award of International Arbitration
Lipská, Jana ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Šístek, František (referee)
This text presents progression of Slovenia-Croatia border dispute in the Bay of Piran and narrates the question of Slovenian junction to high seas. The dispute which escalated with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is one of many similar disputes that has the war in the Balkans caused. Therefore, the text presents the historical progression of the dispute and its solutions. However, none of those attempts of solution were successful and the dispute remained unsolved for more than twenty years until the parties finally agreed to international arbitration. The international arbitration of Permanent Court of Arbitration in Haag between 2012 - 2017 was the last attempt of solution by third party. This text reconstructs the arbitration and analysis reaction of both sides to the Final Award of the Tribunal and its process. Important part of the whole conflict as well as for this thesis is unilateral termination of Croatia from the arbitration due to the presence of wire-tapes which delivered the conversation between Slovenia's government representatives and Slovenian member of the Tribunal. The thesis presents the circumstances of those wire-tapes and reactions of both parties. The thesis contrasts the political arguments and the international law. It also answers the question why Croatia has...
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Croatia-Slovenia Border Dispute in the Bay of Piran and Reasons of Reaction of both parties to final award of International Arbitration
Lipská, Jana ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Šístek, František (referee)
This text presents progression of Slovenia-Croatia border dispute in the Bay of Piran and narrates the question of Slovenian junction to high seas. The dispute which escalated with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is one of many similar disputes that has the war in the Balkans caused. Therefore, the text presents the historical progression of the dispute and its solutions. However, none of those attempts of solution were successful and the dispute remained unsolved for more than twenty years until the parties finally agreed to international arbitration. The international arbitration of Permanent Court of Arbitration in Haag between 2012 - 2017 was the last attempt of solution by third party. This text reconstructs the arbitration and analysis reaction of both sides to the Final Award of the Tribunal and its process. Important part of the whole conflict as well as for this thesis is unilateral termination of Croatia from the arbitration due to the presence of wire-tapes which delivered the conversation between Slovenia's government representatives and Slovenian member of the Tribunal. The thesis presents the circumstances of those wire-tapes and reactions of both parties. The thesis contrasts the political arguments and the international law. It also answers the question why Croatia has...
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The Merchant or the Vicar? The Role of Values and Interests in the Dutch EU Enlargement Policy
Lellák, Jan ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis examines with the Dutch attitude towards enlargement of the European Union. In Netherlands the EU enlargement is a politically sensitive issue. Dutch foreign policy is traditionally closely connected with the concept of "merchant and the vicar", reflecting both values of the society and national interests. Interestingly the attitude of the government, reflecting the public opinion, is much more conservative compared to other member states and strictly support the democratic conditionality as the core strategy of the EU to induce candidate states to comply with its human rights and democracy standards. Netherlands gives also special value to the need to give particular regards to the current absorption capacity of EU. The main purpose of the thesis is to evaluate to what extent is the official attitude of the Dutch government towards enlargement shaped by either interests or values of the society as a whole. I put the current Dutch attitude in the context of the current development in Serbia, as the most significant candidate state form the region of Western Balkans and Iceland. The thesis analyses two very similar cases: the cooperation with the ICTY in Hague and the Icesave dispute. Netherlands has long and persistently blocked the accession negotiations with Iceland and...
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Analysis of Accession Process between Turkey and European union
Kučera, Michal ; Spiesová, Daniela (advisor) ; Severová, Lucie (referee)
This bachelor thesis, witch title is the Analysis of the Accession Process between Turkey and the European Union, is divided into two parts. Theoretical part, in which are elaborated the basic facts about the European Union, the circumstances and the historical context of origin, history, institutions and principles. There is also the development of the euro area and also emphasized the importance of the Maastricht contract and its subsequent modifications. The first part is an introduction of the Republic of Turkey with historical, political and economic background. The analytical part presents Turkey as a candidate country to the European Union, with an emphasis on the strategic location. The following is an overview of all the accession criteria from the European Union as they have been updated over time, content, and depending on the changing political and economic circumstances in Europe after the collapse of the Eastern bloc, including the legal framework of the accession criteria laid down in the contracts. There are analysed in detail the accession negotiations between Turkey and the European Union, their development and evaluation of the actual results of performance of the access requirements of the Turkish side. There is listed an overview accession chapters (screening acquis) and feedback in the evaluation reports from the European Commission. In conclusion is evaluation of the overall accession process considering to the current political situation in Europe.
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EU and NATO enlargements and Russia´s reactions: another division of Europe?
Hejhalová, Zuzana ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Sršeň, Radim (referee)
The theme of this thesis is the enlargement of the EU and NATO, and Russia's response to such expansion. The aim of this work is to analyze whether the expansion of these institutions after the end of the Cold War is creating a new dividing line in Europe. The analysis is embedded in a constructivist theoretical perspective. I will therefore examine the distinct identities of the West (for purposes of this work represented by the EU and NATO) and Russia. These different identities should cause that the actors perceive the EU and NATO enlargements from a different perspective. Different vision of certain reality then creates tension between the two "value blocks" and thus may resemble the Cold War.
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Possibilities of integration of the Western Balkans into the EU
Trajkovska, Ljupka ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Dúbravská, Pavla (referee)
The main objective of this thesis is to evaluate the future prospects for membership of the Western Balkan countries in the European Union. Western Balkan includes the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The main objective of the first chapter is to define the mutual relations between the European Union and the Western Balkan countries, according to their past results since the end of the Cold far until present. The second chapter explains the main features of the political and economic situation in the Western Balkans and the enlargement policy of the European Union. Emphasis was put on the Copenhagen criteria and on some of the main components of the Stabilization and Association Process, such as Stabilization and Association Agreements and EU pre-accession assistance to the Western Balkans. The last chapter deals with the future development and the possibilities for membership of the Western Balkan countries in the EU, based on the evaluation of the results which were achieved by the Western Balkan countries according to the latest European Commission progress report.
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Development of the economy of Croatia at te beginning of the twenty-first century (2001 to 2009)
Vančurová, Petra ; Karpová, Eva (advisor) ; Suchá, Tereza (referee)
This paper will evaluate the economic development of Croatia from 2001 to 2009. The paper consists of three chapters. The first chapter briefly describes the economic development in the second half of the 20th century. The second chapter contains a general characterisation of the contemporary economic and political situation of Croatia and then describes the economic development of Croatia from 2001 to 2009 -- particularly the development of selected macroeconomic indicators and quantities such as GDP, inflation, unemployment, balance of payments and development of the exchange rate. The third chapter discusses the readiness of Croatia for entrance into the EU.
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Turkey and the EU: cultural and historical aspects
Sellner, Filip ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
In the main part of the thesis is described the relationship between Turkey and the EU. Also the evolution of the relationship with the beginning in the 1960s is analyzed with consequences of the potential enlargement for both, the Turkey and the EU. Nevertheless, the basic time period is the last decade with an outlook for the first years of the potential Turkish membership in the EU. Not only culture but also attitude of European citizens and Turcs to the membership or Turkish economy and its geographic location play an important role in the process of enlargement. Potential pros and contras are followed by the analysis of the dispute over Cyprus with Greece and the question of Kurdish people in Turkey.
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