Poland, Germany and the EU: Reimagining Central Europe

Ekaterina Levintova and David Coury

Europe-Asia Studies, 2020, vol. 72, issue 7, 1186-1208

Abstract: In this article, we look at the fissures in United Europe from both sides of the region where a post-Cold War ‘Middle/Central Europe’ should have been forged. How do leading German and Polish newspapers treat the categories of ‘Central’ or ‘Middle’ Europe relative to the concept of the Eastern–Western European divide and what are the discourses associated with these perspectives? At the time of a looming redefinition of the entire European project, what can media reports from Germany and Poland tell us about its future? We conclude that the media narratives in these two countries portend further tensions for European unity, since the new divisions now overlap the old ones. Our findings have implications for the future of democracy in the newly democratic countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2020.1764910

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