Abstract

A decade after the fall of Communism in Europe, the Czech Republic's membership in the European Union is still a matter of a relatively short waiting period of 4 years. Not so the imagination of this membership and the creation of a political concept created to promote this goal: the specific Central European policy initiated by Thomas G. Masaryk and revitalized by Václav Havel. Despite the deep differences in the political thought and philosophical orientations of both Presidents, not to mention the historic rupture of 41 years of Totalitarianism, their perceptions of Europe as an Imagined Community are identical.