Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies

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The V4’s opposition to common internal migration policies has often been explained through their lack of affectedness by migration and their anti-immigrant publics. Yet, the V4 have taken a key role in external EU migration policies and become the third largest donor under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. Through this theory testing case study, we argue that international standing and reputation, as well as an attempt to remain both responsive to their electorates and responsible towards their European partners, were key motivations in adopting this role. Our evidence suggests that the V4 supported external and border policies to demonstrate cooperativeness and responsibility to those European partners who had previously criticised their lack of solidarity. They did so in the external dimension, as this area was much less salient for their domestic audiences, allowing them to also remain responsive to domestic voters as well.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of European Integration
Volume47
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)559-579
Number of pages21
ISSN0703-6337
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 04.2025

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

    Research areas

  • EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, migration policy, populism, reputation, responsibility, responsiveness, Visegrád
  • Law
  • Politics

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