Judy Asks: Is Central Europe Destroying EU Solidarity

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey each week on a European topic in the news.

In this feature the question is: Is Central Europe Destroying EU Solidarity

The experts are:

+ Károly Banai - Independent foreign and security policy analyst
+ Vladimír Bartovic - Director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
+ Federiga Bindi - Senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and director of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research
+ Neil Buckley - Eastern Europe editor at the Financial Times
+ Martin Ehl - Journalist at the Czech daily Hospodářské noviny
+ Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska - Research fellow at the Center for European Reform
+ István Gyarmati - President of the International Center for Democratic Transition
+ Bruno Maçães - Nonresident associate at Carnegie Europe
+ Mariann Őry - Head of the foreign desk at the Hungarian conservative daily Magyar Hirlap
+ Jiří Pehe - Director of New York University in Prague
+ Marc Pierini - Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe
+ Gianni Riotta - Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
+ Pierre Vimont - Senior associate at Carnegie Europe
+ Nicolai von Ondarza - Deputy head of the EU and Europe Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
+ Jakub Wiśniewski - Vice president and director of the Globsec Policy Institute
+ Marcin Zaborowski - Executive vice president of the Center for European Policy Analysis

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Poland: MEPs debate rule of law and fundamental rights in the country http://www.europeansources.info/record/poland-meps-debate-rule-of-law-and-fundamental-rights-in-the-country/

ESO: Background information: The Merkel Way vs. the Orbán Way for Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-merkel-way-vs-the-orban-way-for-europe/

ESO: Background information: Voters back Viktor Orbán’s rejection of EU migrant quotas | Orbán loses his referendum gamble, remains defiant http://www.europeansources.info/record/voters-back-viktor-orbans-rejection-of-eu-migrant-quotas-orban-loses-his-referendum-gamble-remains-defiant/

ESO: Background information: Visegrad’s illusory union http://www.europeansources.info/record/visegrads-illusory-union/

ESO: Background information: Flexible solidarity: Slovakia gives 550 scholarships to refugees http://www.europeansources.info/record/flexible-solidarity-slovakia-gives-550-scholarships-to-refugees/

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