The Influence of Václav Klaus on Czech Public Opinion Regarding the European Union
Journal: The Carl Beck papers in Russian and East European studies
Year: 2017

While president of the Czech Republic between 2003 and 2013, Václav Klaus, an outspoken critic of the European Union, employed speeches, interviews, and writings as a means of discrediting the EU in the eyes of Czech citizens. The author used opinion polls from Eurobarometer and the Public Opinion Research Center (CVVM) of the Czech Academy of Sciences to establish the correlation between Klaus’s popularity and Euroskepticism. In the early years of Klaus’s presidency, scepticism about the EU amo