Abstract
By resounding "No!" to the Muslim refugees in 2015 post-communist Central Europe, in the form of Visegrad group, returned on the European map as a (almost) homogenous bloc and an alternative decision-making centre.Simultaneously, discourses emerged that focused on an alleged specificity and distinctness of the Central part of Europe vis-a-vis its western part. The chapter compares them with two of its recent antecendents - the Central Europeanism of the dissidents and emigrants in 1980ies and the discourse of the "New Europe" at the beginning of the new century.
In those cases as well as after 2015, an ambivalent relationship to the West played a crucial role: identification with it was linked to the criticism of its decline and an idea of Central Europe as its savior.