Eastern Europe – between the East and West

... parachuted by the late Ottoman Empire to subdue the Romanian Principalities, exist by marginalising their nemesis – the professionally competent elites [80] that I mentioned as solution for a predictable and ascending relation between the small states of Eastern Europe and their stronger East-West-South neighbors. [33] - Le Journal de Paltinis, Recit d’une formation spirituelle et philosophique, G. Liiceanu, tr. And notes by Marie-France Ionesco, Editions de La Decouverte, Paris – Armillaire (1999); Paraphrasing Liiceanu, it might be worth asking: What does it mean today to be a European, when the West is in the East, and EU-27 GDP is 15% of World GDP, down from 24% EU-12 GDP ...