CHALLENGES FOR THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF SOVEREIGN TENDENCIES OF EU MEMBER STATES FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
CHALLENGES FOR THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF SOVEREIGN TENDENCIES OF EU MEMBER STATES FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Summary/Abstract: In the last two years, the trend to recover the competences of sovereignty, totally or partially assigned towards Brussels, has become obvious in the EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe. If in the case of Hungary this happened in the context of EU sanctions against Russia and against the wave of migrants from 2015, in the case of Poland it happened in the context of establishing the percentage of migrants which would be received by every EU Member States, and moreover of a permanent ping pong on the justice topic with Brussels. Romania, the second country as size from the area, seems to have remained in pleased neutrality, but there are signs that even in its case the sovereign tendencies might emerge. Starting from these data, in this paper we propose to answer to the following questions: Does the agenda of the Eastern Partnership and EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe correspond with Brussels’ agenda? How do the EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe relate to the Eastern Partnership?

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