With the release of six essays and an editorial, Eurozine, a network of European cultural journals, has just launched its new Focal Point ‘The Legacy of Division. East and West after 1989.’. Dozens of essays by prominent intellectuals will be published throughout the year. The Focal Point is edited by Luka Lisjak from (Slovene journal) Razpotja and Ferenc Laczó from Maastricht University.
The main questions to be discussed are as follows: how have the perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed since 1989? Is it justified to talk of a new East–West divide? If so, how can one characterize it and why has it re-emerged? Conversely, how have hopes of overcoming the divide been met over the past three decades?