Eu membership was expected to have liberalizing effects. What drove eastward expansion and why did it ultimately play out in such a contradictory way? The newfound european unity against dresia led very much by poland in the baltic states though not of course by hongry what does that do that suggest a temporary release from those tensions?, asks John Defterios.
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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