Hope for Central Eastern Europe

Zsold Németh, chairman of the Hungarian parliament's foreign affairs committee, writes in the left-liberal newspaper Népszabadság: "We need the US, especially now that Russia's foreign policy is focussing on a new division of spheres of interest. The true security risk for Central Eastern Europe today is the fragility of the trans-Atlantic alliance. ... Barack Obama's election victory encourages us in believing that this fragility in European-American relations can be overcome. ... The Czech-Polish-American missile defence system, for example, ... sends the political message that the US will remain in the region. ... Let us hope that in Democratic circles those that advocate a phased withdrawal of the US from our region will not gain the upper hand, but that the foreign policy experts from the Clinton era who made possible our Nato accession ... will prevail."

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