What do Hungarian foreign policy stakeholders think?

Abstract

The online opinion survey of the “Visegrad Foreign Policy Trends 2015” project was conducted between July and September 2015 with the goal of assessing what views various foreign policy stakeholders (politicians, civil servants, experts, analysts, journalists, business representatives) hold in the four Visegrad states concerning their country‟s foreign policy, its allies, priorities and activities in certain thematic areas of current affairs. The results of the survey do not only present a unique insight into stakeholders‟ perception about their own country‟s foreign policy, but also provide a comparative overview of how foreign policy elites approach contemporary challenges and to what extent foreign policy thinking and identity is similar in the four countries. This report summarizes the key Hungarian results of the survey, while also providing a brief regional comparison concerning how stakeholders from the other three Visegrad countries think about their own countries‟ foreign policy, the future of the European Union, and the functioning of the Visegrad Group.