Außenpolitik in ostmitteleuropa von universalisten, Atlantikern, Europäem und souveränisten

Political development of East-Central Europe gave rise to irritations. The growing strength of populist forces and the implications this had on foreign policy were observed with anxiety. The broad consensus on Western integration, which characterised the 1990s, disappeared. The forces that espouse unlimited sovereignty for the nation state grew stronger. In the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia, the proponents of a deepening of the European Union and a simultaneous strengthening of transatlantic relations were forced on the defensive. But the all-clear signal can be sounded: In Poland, the page has already turned; in Hungary, the champions of dual integration with the West were never really in distress.