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Feeblest pillar of Europe’s freedom temple is cracking again

The 90s, with their message of hope, are long gone and no politician in the West makes speeches about the healing wonders of democracy any longer

By Peter Preston  /  THE GUARDIAN , LONDON

Today, Berlusconi weaves on regardless down his merry, rancid way. Bulgaria and Romania still struggle without help or encouragement. The Czechs and the Poles falter a little.

Yet nobody seems to care. It is as though we’ve given up on idealism, shrugged in the face of repression and crossed to the other side of the street.

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