
The New Cold War Is Exposing Europe’s Fault Lines
Faced with the return of great power rivalry between the US and China and its own economic stagnation, the European Union seems as divided as ever.
Jan Boguslawski is a doctoral researcher at Sciences Po Paris, working on political economy and welfare state transformations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Faced with the return of great power rivalry between the US and China and its own economic stagnation, the European Union seems as divided as ever.
Before their illiberal turn, Poland and Hungary were lauded as postcommunist poster children. Both nations have combined moderately redistributive welfare states with attacks on civil liberties — but inflation is putting their growth model to the test.