Heart of Europe
From the Atlantic to the Urals, the European continent is undergoing dramatic change. In the West, highly developed economies are merging under the banner of “Europe ’92.” In the East, struggling new democracies are taking their baby steps. Germany is finding out that political unification does not translate automatically or even easily into economic and social unity. And in what used to be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, decades of icy immobility have turned into a torrent of upheaval.
A survey of the new Europe by Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press documents some of the underlying public attitudes propelling these changes.
On these pages, Los Angeles Times staff writers who were part of the survey team assess the major themes to emerge from the study. This section also contains a special four-page pullout that summarizes the Times Mirror survey.
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