In Slovakia, the results are particularly shocking,with 41%of the population finding Putin sympathetic; only21%said the same for Merkel.〜Furthermore, a considerable size of the population thinks that the country should belong to the East or should be somewhere in between the east and the West.
10/2 Merkel’s shift to a more hardline direction in the refugee&immigration issue(including proposing and then passing a burqa ban)largely went unnoticed,&Germany was seen in the region as the liberal hegemon that aggressively&hypocritically presses its values&economic interests on its neighbors