Government

The chapter aims to identify the positions the Czech Republic pursued, as presented in the government programme statements and by the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers, during the migration crisis. In the context of the criticism of the European Union by the government representatives, the Reformer role was often manifested due to the proposed solutions to this crisis. In most cases, the Europeanist Reformer position was manifested, although in the case of then Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the position of Sovereignist Reformer also emerged in 2018. However, the Europeanist and Sovereignist Reformer positions did not mean the absence or marginalisation of positions manifested earlier that were typically associated with a more positive view of the European Union (e.g., Europeanist Faithful Ally). In the context of the migration crisis and the positions presented from the governmental perspective, the main change related to the inclusion of the role of Reformer.