The migration crisis of 2015/2016 deepened a major fault line inside the EU, the one between its Western part and its new members from Central and Eastern Europe. Analysing the case of Czechia this article points to the role of politicisation and technocracy in this split. It is argued here that technocratic ideas and practices are deeply rooted in the Czech public life and that a technocratic symbiosis existed between the EU and Czechia. However, this symbiosis was disturbed by the way the European Commission was politicised before and during the crisis while it clashed with Czech technocratic positions.

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失败的技术统治：捷克对欧盟的看法

2015/2016 年的移民危机加深了欧盟内部的一条主要断层线，即其西部与中东欧新成员之间的断层线。本文分析捷克的案例，指出政治化和技术官僚主义在这种分裂中的作用。这里有人认为，技术官僚的思想和实践深深植根于捷克的公共生活，并且欧盟和捷克之间存在着技术官僚的共生关系。然而，欧盟委员会在危机之前和期间与捷克技术官僚立场发生冲突时被政治化的方式扰乱了这种共生关系。