Pew research reveals very different views on whether countries are better off today Thirty years after the fall of communism, few people in Europe’s former eastern bloc regret the monumental political, social and economic change it unleashed – but at the same time few are satisfied with the way things are now, and many worry for the future. A Pew Research Center survey of 17 countries, including 14 EU member states, found that while most people in central and eastern Europe generally embraced democracy and the market economy, support was far from uniformly strong. Continue reading... |