Monika Brusenbauch Meislová with Dan Marek has published an article in European Politics and Society
Monika Brusenbauch Meislová has published an article, together with Dan Marek, in European Politics and Society (Routledge), titled “‘It’s the EU’s fault!’
Strategies of blame avoidance in Andrej Babiš’s discourse on the conflict-of-interest case”. The article investigates strategies of blame avoidance in the discourse of the former Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babiš, on the conflict-of-interest case over the misuse of European Union funds. It reveals that the conflict of interest case has provided opportunities for the Czech PM to play a multi-dimensional blame game against the EU, orchestrate a discursive battle with the EU and invoke nationalist feelings. The authors argue that this discursive patterning signals a departure from his hitherto pragmatic approach to the EU, with Babiš increasingly radicalizing his explicitly exclusionary construction of the EU, promulgating anti-EU sentiment and countenancing the polarization between the EU on the one hand and the Czech Republic on the other.
The link to the article is available here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23745118.2022.2043066?journalCode=rpep21
