Analysis by Péter Pál Kránitz
Central Europe is a hostage to geography and history. Regional states have historically benefited greatly from their position as a hub along the East-West and North-South trade corridors. Later, however, the Iron Curtain and, more recently, the Russo-Ukrainian war cut the region off first from the West and then from the East, while the European Union’s infrastructure and connectivity development policies have favoured Western member states at the expense of East-Central European countries. The prosperity of our region could be ensured if it regained a central position in NorthSouth and East-West trade routes and global supply chains – this could be achieved by strengthening interconnectivity along the Three Seas Initiative and the Middle Corridor, a targeted infrastructure development policy for transportation of goods and energy, from the Baltic through the Black Sea to the Caspian region.
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