Images of the European Union from the Perspective of the Debate held in the Polish Parliament on the Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Tasks of Foreign Policy of Poland in 2017
Images of the European Union from the Perspective of the Debate held in the Polish Parliament on the Information of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Tasks of Foreign Policy of Poland in 2017

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an analysis of speeches delivered by the Members of Parliament in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland during the discussion which took place on 9th February 2017 regarding the information from the Minister of Foreign Affairs about the tasks of the Polish foreign policy in 2017. The aim of the analysis focusing on parliamentary discourse was to reconstruct the images (visions) of the European Union created by the representatives of the main political powers in Poland. The analysis confirms that since 2007 there have evolved two separate images of the European Union in the Polish parliamentary discourse (EU as an area of rivalry/confrontation vs EU as a conciliatory Union), hence there have also been two different propositions of how Poland should participate in the integration process.

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