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9 January 2021

9:00 AM

9 January 2021

9:00 AM

Europe’s woke Iron Curtain

Who could have predicted that the gulf between Europe’s west and east would still be there thirty years after the end of the Cold War – but now taking the form of a radically woke EU establishment trying to bludgeon Hungarians, Czechs and Poles into accepting that there are more than two genders? The EU has evolved from an organisation focussed on regional free trade into one which also enforces fashionable orthodoxies, most of which are as popular as wet bread east of the former Iron Curtain.

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Mark Higgie is the Spectator Australia’s Europe Correspondent

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