Między targami a argumentacją. Kontekstualne spojrzenie na rolę Unii Europejskiej w G20
Between bargaining and argiung. Contextual view on the European Union's role in the G20

Summary/Abstract: The article argues that the EU’s diplomatic activity in the G20 is not so much determined by itspowers in the founding treaties, but rather by external factors that influence the specific behaviour of theUnion with regard to negotiating individual points of the Group’s agenda. As far as the EU’s economic andfinancial issues are concerned, the European Union, balancing between member-states that do not havea single representation in the G20 and the EU4 (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy), chooses aninteraction mode that can be defined as (hard) bargaining. In other, less sensitive issues such as climatechange, development policy, gender or employment, the EU prefers arguing. The article presents thesetwo narratives of the EU’s participation in the G20 as a diplomatic actor. Their choice affects the level ofcoordination of the diplomatic activity of the European Union, relations between its member states andactivities of institutions representing the EU in the G20.

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