Barbares Ante Portas! Explaining the European Union’s Eastern Enlargement
Introduction If we can no longer talk of communism we should no longer talk of Eastern Europe, at least not with a capital ‘E’ for Eastern. Instead, we shall have central Europe again, east central Europe, south-eastern Europe, eastern Europe with a small ‘e’ and, above all, individual peoples, nations and states. Timothy Garton Ash The period between 1989 and 1993 was a real roller-coaster ride in the history of Europe. First the wave of peaceful democratic revolutions in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE), somewhat less peaceful ones in Romania and Bulgaria. Then the domino-like secessions of the Soviet Republics – the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia. Finally – the division of Yugoslavia and the outbreak of a bloody ethnic war, the velvet divorce of Czechs and Slovaks and lastly – reunification of the German Republics. Maximum diversity, minimum time – we could say, paraphrasing Milan Kundera’s famous ...
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