One Europe, Two Citizens
One Europe, Two Citizens

Summary/Abstract: The how and why of the different mindsets in EU candidate countries and the EU. "From the early 1990s, new democratic governments all over Central Europe centered their programs for the rehabilitation of democratic institutions and national economies on the slogan “Back to Europe”. Politicians argued that Central Europeans had always belonged to the Western European cultural and political scene and naturally deserved to be accepted back where they belonged. Hungarians, Czechs and Poles competed to prove who was more Western, using historical and geographical arguments. In almost all promotional materials of the Czech Republic it was proudly stated that Prague is located west of Vienna. "

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