Slovak Foreign Policy Thinking in the Run-Up to the EU Council Presidency
Slovak Foreign Policy Thinking in the Run-Up to the EU Council Presidency

Author(s): Andrej Chovan
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, International relations/trade
Published by: AMO – Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky
Keywords: Visegrad Group; Slovak foreign policy; CEPI survey; policymakers; diplomats; civil servants; regional convergence; national priorities; policy perception; Central Europe;
Summary/Abstract: The “Trends of Visegrad Foreign Policy” project provides a chance to examine the perceptions of Slovak policy makers and researchers and compare them with those of their Czech, Polish and Hungarian counterparts. During the summer of 2015, CEPI and its partners in the V4 countries, approached a total of 1711 foreign-policy stake-holders (diplomats and civil servants, researchers and journalists, politicians and businessmen) in the region with a set of 24 questions to identify their perception of current trends and goals of their country’s foreign policy. It also gave us an insight into to what extent, and in which areas, these national visions and priorities converge and diverge the most in the regional context. In this short commentary, we will focus on several issues in which Slovak responses diverged from the rest of Visegrad.

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