{"id":2331,"date":"2015-09-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/eastern-europeaes-compassion-deficit"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:46:55","slug":"eastern-europes-compassion-deficit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/eastern-europeaes-compassion-deficit","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Europe's Compassion Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ivan Krastev commenting on refugees crisis in New York Times<\/h3>\n<p>\"It is deeply distressing to see Eastern European societies and governments claiming that it is morally right to shut their doors to those running from death. The compassion deficit highlights the much deeper crisis at the heart of the European project.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Partner of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for international dialogue and a contributing opinion writer.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2331","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eastern Europe&#039;s Compassion Deficit - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/eastern-europes-compassion-deficit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eastern Europe&#039;s Compassion Deficit - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ivan Krastev commenting on refugees crisis in New York Times &quot;It is deeply distressing to see Eastern European societies and governments claiming that it is morally right to shut their doors to those running from death. 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