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`Attila Agh's book investigates the largely neglected domestic developments in the East-Central member states since the fall of the iron curtain and their subsequent accession to the European Union. Agh's analysis is comprehensive, well-informed and illustrates how a mixture between external conditionalities and domestic developments, predominantly a persistent systemic distrust and lack of deep-seated Europeanisation have contributed towards the rise of neopopulism in the region. Agh warns of the a decline in all respects of democracy, governance and sustainability as a complex deficit as part of a general trend of democratic backsliding in the ECE region. Agh's analysis is a crucial and overdue contribution to the academic and public debate on the future of the EU beyond the current narrow focus on Brexit and the revival of the Franco-German partnership. He illustrates that the biggest risk for the survival of the European project post-Brexit lies in the manifestation of East-Central Europe as a `blind spot', a warning which should be a wake-up call to Western political elites.' -- Christian Schweiger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

'Attila Agh's book investigates the largely neglected domestic developments in the East-Central member states since the fall of the iron curtain and their subsequent accession to the European Union. Agh's analysis is comprehensive, well-informed and illustrates how a mixture between external conditionalities and domestic developments, predominantly a persistent systemic distrust and lack of deep-seated Europeanisation have contributed towards the rise of neopopulism in the region. Agh warns of the ''a decline in all respects of democracy, governance and sustainability as a complex deficit'' as part of a general trend of democratic backsliding in the ECE region. Agh's analysis is a crucial and overdue contribution to the academic and public debate on the future of the EU beyond the current narrow focus on Brexit and the revival of the Franco-German partnership. He illustrates that the biggest risk for the survival of the European project post-Brexit lies in the manifestation of East-Central Europe as a 'blind spot', a warning which should be a wake-up call to Western political elites.' --Christian Schweiger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

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Attila Ágh, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Political Science, Budapest Corvinus University, Hungary

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