The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade has the pleasure
to invite you to its upcoming online
Study Launch
titled

 

Minilateral Cooperation in the EU – Internal Cohesion,
Group Dynamics, and Voting Behaviour of Selected State Blocks

 

Welcoming Remarks:

 

Márton Ugrósdy

Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Director

 

Keynote Speech:

 

François Roux

EGMONT – The Royal Institute for International Relations

Senior Advisor on European Affairs

 

Followed by a roundtable discussion with:

 

Tamás Levente Molnár

Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Research Fellow

 

Nikolett Garai

Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Research Fellow

 

Vít Havelka

Europeum Institute for European Policy

Research Fellow

 

Levente Kocsis

Leiden University

MA Student

 

Matúš Mišík

Slovak Foreign Policy Association

Research Fellow

 

Juraj Sýkora

Slovak Foreign Policy Association

Junior Researcher

 

Moderator:

 

Tamás Péter Baranyi

Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Deputy Director for Strategy

 

The event will be held on

21 October (Thursday), 17.00 – 18.30 on ZOOM

 

This event is public but registration is required.
Please register
HERE until 14.00 on 20 October (Wednesday), 2021.

 

We will send an email with a link to access the event to the registered guests on the day of the event.

 

We would like to inform you that the number of participants is limited, thus we can guarantee the participation of the first 100 registered persons.

 

Please note that any audiovisual recording of the event is only permitted by prior written authorization of the organizers. The event will be filmed and the recording will be put on our websites. By participating you consent to such use of your image.


The IVF Minilateralism project – Minilateral Cooperation in the EU Internal Cohesion, Group Dynamics, and Voting Behaviour of Selected State Blocks (project title: Comparing Minilateralisms in the EU: Cooperation within the V4 and other Minilateral Groupings) aims to provide an extensive analysis about how selected minilateral groups function in the EU.

 

The numerous regionally and functionally organised groups formed by the EU Member States over the last ten years have become increasingly important in the EU’s policy formulation. These various groups promote integration within the EU by bringing new dynamics to European politics, while also contributing to the further fragmentation of the Union.

 

During the last two to three years, an increasing number of scientific articles concerning European minilateralisms have been published. Many of these articles not only examine the phenomenon of minilateralism, but also provide a good theoretical and methodological framework for further research. However, comprehensive research regarding the inner cohesion of minilateral groups, the level of their effectiveness, and their success to act collectively has not been conducted as of yet.

 

This project aims to examine and compare the functionality and effectiveness of six different minilateral groups which in part often, in part just sometimes operate collectively to influence the decision-making processes within the EU institutions.

 

The six groups in question are

the Benelux,

the E3,

the Mediterranean Seven,

the Nordic-Baltic Six,

the Visegrad Group,

the Weimar Triangle.

 

Partcipants: IFAT, SFPA, EUROPEUM

 

The project is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

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