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Article: Westward, look, the land is bright - Central Europe; Is Central Europe ready for the big leagues?(Is Central Europe ready for the big leagues?)(European Union membership)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2002
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Getting Budapest ready
The European Union is now formally embarking upon enlargement. For Central Europeans, however, the end of history may prove disappointing
PAINFUL history is not hard to find in Central Europe. World wars, totalitarianism and genocide have been played out on its soil. Yet think also of Poland, which vanished from the map for more than a century. It re-emerged amid the ruins of the first world war only to be brutalised again during the second, then waited until 1989 for the freedom, once again, to make its own way. Stubbornly, this part of the world has a knack of rising again. Soon, thanks to Ireland's approval last weekend of the ...