The “Heretic” debate on European asylum quotas in the Czech Republic: A content analysis

This article examines the Czech political scene, by focusing on the attitude of the main political parties in the Czech Republic and their attitude towards the issue of migration quotas in the period between May 2015 and July 2017. It touches upon the migration quota issue by, first of all, shortly describing main characteristics of Czech political parties in terms of European integration in general and additionally by discussing the modes in which Czech political parties comprehended the migration quota issue and what sort of messages they communicate to the Czech public in this respect. Methodologically, the article rests upon both Content Analysis and, to a lesser degree, Discourse Analysis, and proves that Czech political parties did not only have negative views of the quota issue during the stated period, but some of them also referred to this particular matter when discussing the Czech position (and the future) in the European Union.