Central and Eastern Europe: The need for devolution

In central and Eastern Europe, conflicts of the past and present warrant the need for devolution. The various centripetal forces are on the move for a more unified atmosphere in several Central and Eastern European countries. The communist wave of the Russian era seems to be dying and the urge for a more liberal ethnic and cultural environment seems to be getting strength. A number of states have tended to form as or to fracture into ethno-linguistic groupings (e.g. the Baltic States, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) (Marsh 2010 89). Countries in Central and ...