Promoting National Priorities in EU Foreign Policy

<p>How do smaller member states promote their interests in EU foreign policy and external relations?</p><p></p><p>EU membership can be seen to affect member states’ foreign policy in two ways either by restricting national policies or empowering states in a challenging global environment. There is a general agreement however that the member states especially smaller ones have to engage actively in policy-making in order to promote their particular interest. </p><p></p><p>This cross-policy comparison of the behaviour of Czech Republic’s representatives in the Council and the methods they use to influence the decision-making applies categorisation from lobbying literature to analyse the behaviour of the member state’s representatives and contributes to two strands of scholarship on European Union politics - decision-making in the EU and Europeanization. The book maps the methods of interest promotion that can be used by a member state and analyses the differences in interest promotion across external policy areas.</p>