Lengyel László
Laszlo Lengyel: The Last Peaceful Days?
Resume: The economic and political crisis of 2008-2010 has had an unexpected impact by calling into question the success of the third wave of democratization in Europe.
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The dilemmas of the countries in Central Eastern Europe
Financial Research Working Papers, July 2011
The article was published in Global Affairs:
The Last Peaceful Days? - Central and Eastern Europe: The End of Illusions about the Golden Age (in Russian: Последние мирные дни?) In: Global Affairs, July-August, 2011 (pp 102-115)
Download: http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/The-Last-Peaceful-Days-15326
Keywords—Eastern Europe, Russia, International Relations, Economic Crisis
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Laszlo Lengyel: a third nationalist wave?
Laszlo Lengyel: a convincing government, a convincing prime minister
Gabor Fodor and the Free Democrats rejected the Gyurcsany package. They were right in grasping that only one sentence of this programme needed to be taken seriously: "If Parliament does not accept this programme, I will resign." The Socialist Party's leaders have now either to support Gyurcsany and his package, or they have to persuade Gyurcsany to resign from the prime minister ship, remaining party leader until the next congress. The second course of events is in the country's interest: a convincing government with a convincing prime minister.
On the playgrounds of the God and the Devil
Regardless of attempts by protestant German and Catholic Polish bishops to reconcile, regardless of Brandt's kneeling in Warsaw, of Germany's support for Poland's membership of NATO and the EU, there is still no reconciliation, and no Europeanisation. Today, we are further from reconciliation than 20 years ago. And there is no Polish-Russian, German-Czech, Romanian-Hungarian or Slovak-Hungarian reconciliation either, let alone Serb-Croat or Serb-Albanian reconciliation. Endless rounds of new wounds.
