In Central Europe, EU Skeptics Retake Center Stage

The peoples of Central Europe have a habit of being indigestible to great continental empires. By the Gorbachev years, the Soviet Union had become exhausted by its restive European satellites, a feeling Habsburg rulers had known decades earlier—and that’s just the twentieth century. So it was inevitable that this region would prove a thorn in the side of the liberal superstate project headquartered in Brussels.

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