A European success story? Central Europe from democratic revolutions to EU accession (1989-2004) and beyond

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction | Adam Balcer 4
Everything started in Gdańsk | Aleksandra Dulkiewicz 7
Central Europe in the European Union and beyond. Legacy of 1989 and 2004 | Adam Balcer 11
Hungary at the crossroads: challenges of democratic backslide and Euroscepticism | István Hegedűs 21
The history of post-communism in a nutshell: Czechia after 1989 | Michal Klíma 30
Unified but different? Assessment of the benefits and costs of German reunification | Katrin Böttger and Simone Klee 39
Central Europe, the EU and I | Marie Kepler 48
The breakthrough moments of 1989 and 2004 – how freedom brought us Wrocław back | Tomasz Kubiak 52