Europe’s central disappointment

This article was written one month ago on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The writer indicates the speech of Vaclav Havel in 1989, when Europe overthrew the communism. Havel promised the world that his country which is Czechoslovakia will be a compassionate force in the European Union. Furthermore it will bring something new to the continent which he called ‘the art of the impossible. In fact, they were not that kind of force, because they weakened the European Union's progress. In addition, they represent the ideology of a chauvinistic populism.
The soviet-style dictatorship took a toll on the European societies which were qualified and ready to enter the European Union but they couldn’t. Many parties and movements spread through central Europe that affected the popular opinion and may cause some problems. Those movements had a huge negative impact in central Europe because they were not marginal such as in western Europe. Also the impact spread through the whole of Europe because central Europe was the right wing factions in the European parliament.
Finally 20 years after central Europe's failure to be what it wanted or promised to be, because of the impact of the negative movements and parties. Disappointedly some of them are still alive.

Reference: Hockenos, Paul. "Europe's Central Disappointment." Newsweek 12 Oct. 2009: 9. Print.