The division of Europe into "new" and "old" is most related to the situation in "old" Europe and quite little depends on both the direct policy of the United States and the change of governments in the new EU countries . "New Europe" remains pro -American, nothing fundamentally changed here and will not change. The division into two Europe has lost relevance in connection with a new wave of Atlantic in old EU members.

The expectations of the participants from the Summit of the EU countries, which took place on November 15, were extremely clearly formulated by Jose Manuel Barroza: from a meeting in Washington, one should not expect an immediate miracle, but at the same time it should not become a failure. Miracles did not happen ... However, the solution of issues fundamental for modern Europe does not require excessive insight.

Review of the book: Lawrence Harrison. The main truth of liberalism. M.: New Publishing House, 2008, 282 p. As you know, at different times, the term "liberalism" denoted very different things. And now: “liberal” in England is not at all the same as “liberal” in the USA.

In all post -communist countries, the action of such an internal factor as the confrontation of two types of elites: a) patriotic (often acquiring a shade of nationalist) and b) is ready for the role of the performer of the second (and even third) roles in the “powerful world”. In Eastern Europe, the role of a patriotic elite, which does not suffer from an overly feminine complex of need to lean against the "strong and rich", to hide under its wing, is relatively weak.

The division of Europe into “old” and “new” first said US defense minister Donald Ramsfeld in 2003. This division of Ramsfeld provoked the leaders of the two great continental powers of Western Europe, France and Germany, especially the then President of France Jacques Shirak.

The performance of President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev with his first message to the Federal Assembly, which was postponed several times and transferred, became the main political event of November in Russia.

The 1989 democratic anti -authoritarian revolutions led to a change in the geopolitical situation of the former socialist countries in Europe. Invented by Western Sovietists as opposed to the West The concept of "Eastern Europe" sunk into oblivion, although some of the Russian publicists inertia continue to use it. Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic began to call themselves central, central-eastern and even eastern central Europe.