The Benes decrees: Implications for EU enlargement
This year's succession of election campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe has seen an increasing willingness on the part of right-wing populists to play up historical injustices and past hatreds to gain political advantage. Much debate has centred on the decrees of Edvard Benes, post-war Czechoslovak president, which legitimised the removal of the Czechoslovak citizenship of German and Hungarian minorities, and the expropriation of their property after 1945.
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