What makes a rotating EU Council Presidency successful?
Existing research has broadly argued that there are objective criteria for evaluating the Council Presidency's performance (honest brokerage, agenda-setting, etc.). While doing so, they have assumed a cooperative, rule-abiding behaviour from the Presiding countries and have disregarded the possibility that renegade Member States might view their Presidency period differently.
In this talk, Czina critically engages with the literature, evaluating the presidencies’ success through the case study of Hungary’s 2024 presidency. Hungary’s case is particularly notable because even the country’s right to hold the position was challenged by EU institutions, and some of them eventually boycotted parts of it.
This talk will demonstrate, through Hungary’s case, that holding the Presidency is itself a political contestation within the EU. Thus, we need to rethink how we evaluate the rotating Presidency and how we define its success.
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