Prospects for the eastern EU in 2023
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Subject
Prospects for the eastern EU in 2023.
Significance
Perceptions of Russia as an overwhelming security threat have grown across the eleven eastern EU member-states (EU-11), but important pockets of pro-Russian support remain in Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Latvia. Poland’s key position on the Russia-Ukraine war has raised its standing in Brussels, but not enough to overcome its rule-of-law dispute with the EU. Hungary keeps challenging EU solidarity on Ukraine and other issues.