And, 30 years later, a response to #Kundera by #Ukrainian intellectual Mykola #Riabchuk: "Shifting the Wall Further East."
https://www.aspen.review/article/2021/shifting-wall-east-kunderas-tragedy-central-europe-three-decades-later/

Ryabchuk points out that Kundera's setting "Western" European traditions against "Eastern" non-European ones - pushed nations further east outside the consciousness of Europeans, where they were left to fend for themselves against an #Russian will to dominate.
#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine

The first is Milan Kundera's "Un Occident kidnappé" of 1984, here in English translation: "The Tragedy of Central Europe"

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1984/04/26/the-tragedy-of-central-europe/

#Kundera sets the culture of Central European nations against the foreign culture of Russian colonisation, bemoaning in passing the demise of the #Habsburg Empire.

#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine

Was made aware of two very thought-provoking essays about Central Europe. As a non-expert I can't really judge them, still, they fascinate me and make me want to read more. They deal with the problems Central and Central-Eastern European nations faced defending their cultures against an overweening #Russian impulse of colonisation.

#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine

Eastern EU countries will make or break the bloc’s 2030 renewables goal https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/eastern-eu-countries-will-make-or-break-the-blocs-2030-renewables-goal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #centraleasterneurope #RenewableEnergyDirective