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Slovakia has achieved several milestones since its accession to the European Union in 2004, in the area of political discourse, perception of EU-membership, and also with regards to the performance of the country on the “European parquet”. It was not clear at the end of the 1990s whether Slovakia would overcome its integration deficit and whether it would become a member of the western-democratic clubs with other post-communist countries. Slovakia had entered the EU with enthusiasm and the feeling that “we got it”.
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Gyárfášová, O., Mokrá, L. (2019). Being European: The Slovak Way. In: Kaeding, M., Pollak, J., Schmidt, P. (eds) The Future of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93046-6_26
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