The Countries of the Eastern Partnership in the Czech Foreign Policy
The Countries of the Eastern Partnership in the Czech Foreign Policy

Author(s): Lucia Najšlová
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Political behavior, Comparative politics, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: Czech Republic’s Eastern Policy; domestic political disputes;
Summary/Abstract: Eastern policy belongs to the declared long-term priorities of the Czech foreign policy. Although in 2015, especially in its second half, the debate on the European Neighborhood Policy was dominated by the refugee crisis, there were also several shifts in the Eastern policy. The most important one was the solid anchoring of the Eastern policy as a priority in all the new conceptual documents, while in the foreign-policy concept, Eastern Europe, together with the Western Balkans, are defined as a part of the Euro-Atlantic area. These changes are based on the programme declarations of the Government adopted in 2014, in which it undertook to understand the EU as the basic framework of the Czech foreign policy.1

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