The Visegrád Group – a united front against a common European narrative?

Filip Fila is the author of the paper “The Visegrád Group – a united front against a common European narrative?“, published in the journal Der Donauraum, 62 (1).

The perception of the Visegrád Group has changed since the beginning of the migrant crisis in 2015. For some, the group now represents a sort of a “united front against a common European narrative”. This paper challenges the superficiality of such a notion by identifying the ideological components of a “united V4” narrative and examining the extent to which both the ruling parties and the citizens of member countries agree with them. The main finding is that ruling political parties cluster into distinct two groups, the Czech and Slovak bloc being more moderate than the Polish and Hungarian group. The citizens of these countries can neither be clustered in a similar way, nor are they homogenous in their views, except to some extent on immigration matters. Also, citizens do not on average hold the same positions as their current governments.

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