From CNBC:
Support for democracy and free markets has fallen in Central and Eastern Europe as a result of the severe financial crises the new European Union members have experienced, a report by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) showed on Tuesday.
The EBRD’s Transition Report 2011, which analyzes data from a survey of around 39,000 people mainly from emerging Europe, shows that in Eastern Europe, the continent’s crisis affected ordinary households much more than it did in Western Europe.
Popular support for democracy fell most in the more advanced countries in the Central and Eastern European region—it declined particularly sharply in Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary, with support in Slovakia falling by over 20 percentage points between 2006 and 2010…
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