Abstract
This chapter explores developments in the Czech Eastern policy in 2015. Despite stronger institutionalization of Czech Eastern policy in new conceptual and strategic documents adopted after by the new government after 2014, the Czech Eastern policy struggled with a range of problems.
The most important include: low level of identification of elite and public with basic political goals of European integration, whereas the right to benefit from integration is often accentuated over the duty to contribute to problem resolution; imbalance between ambition (declared goals) and allocated resources (financial, human). Another problematic aspect is rhetoric of the president in relation to situation in Ukraine, and discord between trade priorities and political goals pursued in the Eastern neighborhood.