In analyzing contemporary European politics, Lendvai draws on more than seven decades of journalistic experience, deep knowledge of central Europe, and the courage to call it like he sees it. Why, he asks, did national and EU leaders, specifically those in Austria and Germany, so long discount the threat posed by authoritarians, not just in Russia but among far-right EU governments? He contends that politicians willfully ignored the basic lesson of Western policy in the Balkans and, a half

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