Euroscepticism is on the Rise in the Czech Republic
Jan Kovář explores the rising euroscepticism in the Czech Republic in his newest article for Emerging Europe.
The Czech Republic has a long tradition of public euroscepticism, well documented by the pre- and post-accession Eurobarometer opinion polls which rank it among the countries with the lowest support for EU membership in central and eastern Europe. Even before accession to the EU, Czech politics featured a mainstream party with a eurosceptic stance, the Civic Democrats, led by Václav Klaus who later became the president of the country. The ‘return to Europe’ nevertheless remained the main foreign policy goal of the Czech Republic and its desire to become member of the EU (and NATO) was stronger than public and party-based forces which took a pessimistic stance towards further western European integration...
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Mgr. Jan Kovář, Ph.D., je výzkumným pracovníkem ÚMV. Věnuje se především otázkám týkající se Evropské unie. Mezi jeho oblasti zájmu patří evropská integrace, institucionální rámec EU a jeho reforma, či vnitřní bezpečnost EU.
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