What is the dividing line between northern and southern Europe?
The Iron Curtain was an ideological boundary that divided Europe into two blocs—Western countries influenced by the United States, and Eastern countries influenced by the Soviet Union. International economic and military organizations developed on either side of the Iron Curtain.
Why Germany is richer than Italy?
Divide between rich and poor In Germany, the top 10 percent of households by net worth own 60 percent of the country’s wealth, he said.
Is there still an east-west divide in the EU?
Many of the claims about the EU’s East-West divide do not stand up to closer inspection. But like most relationships, it still needs careful attention and engagement. Fifteen years after the EU’s big bang enlargement, one would expect the dividing line between old and new (or post-communist) member states to have faded away.
Is the EU’s dividing line between old and new member states disappearing?
Fifteen years after the EU’s big bang enlargement, one would expect the dividing line between old and new (or post-communist) member states to have faded away. But according to media reporting and academic commentary, the opposite appears to be the case.
What are the EU’s problems?
The EU ’s problems stem not only from within but also from without. What the governments of non-member countries do has an impact on the range of ‘clusters’ into which the Union is fracturing, divisions that are already more complex than North-South, East-West or lenders-borrowers.
What will be the most politically divided items in the EU?
Lehne is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the post–Lisbon Treaty development of the European Union’s foreign policy, with a specific focus on relations between the EU and member states. How to deal with refugees and migrants may be the most politically divisive item.