New Eastern Europe

 New Eastern Europe focuses on Central and Eastern European affairs. It presents its readers with provocative texts, in-depth analyses and stimulating reports from the countries of Eastern Europe. The release of the first issue coincides with the Eastern Partnership Summit taking place in Warsaw, Poland.

Among the magazine’s contributors are policy analysts, journalists and foreign media correspondents, academics, historians and literary writers.

The first issue of New Eastern Europe examines the meaning of Eastern Europe from various perspectives. Martin Pollack, an Austrian writer and translator, provides a critical view of how Western Europeans imagine the borders to their East. Filip Florian, a Romanian writer, contemplates the role his country’s intellectuals play in Europe and what real changes have occurred as a result of Romania’s membership in the EU. Vesna Goldsworthy, a Belgrade-born professor of English literature, shares her experiences and reflections as she returns in 2011 to her native Balkans. Ukrainian professor, Olena Betliy, draws from the writings of Havel, Miłosz, and Konrád to answer the question as to whether the countries of Eastern Europe are truly free.