ANALYSIS: Central Europe Once Lined Up to Join the West, Now It Decides Who Gets In
Uniunea Europeana
Péter Magyar spent three days in Poland borrowing the symbolism of a democratic homecoming, traveling by train from Krakow to Warsaw, laying flowers at the John Paul II monument, and standing beside Donald Tusk to declare that Hungary and Poland would again walk into Brussels “holding hands.” But the trip also restored Hungary to a club whose original meaning has largely drained away. The old Central Europe was built by countries trying to get into the West; the new Central Europe will be
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