> open-minded
Most Eastern European countries are extremely against refugees from northern Africa and the middle East actually.
Most Eastern European countries are extremely against refugees from northern Africa and the middle East actually.
Frankly Eastern Europe has enough problems with it's own economic burdens - lack of capital, low productivity, low % of capable working population and significant brain drain, high corruption and low respect for property ownership, a lot of destroyed capital and outstanding obligations to existing retired people, etc. - most of which can be traced back to Communism. Also they already have problems with poor integration of Roma.
It's easy to see why refugees are not welcome.
For example there were/are a lot of Muslims in the Balkans after the Ottoman empire - but they are integrated within the society - some of them drink/eat pork, none of them expect gays/adulterers to be stoned etc. Just like modern Christians reject the extreme parts of their religion (eg. they mostly ignore the stuff in old testament).
I don't think "islamophobia", in the sense that you'll be ostracized for being a muslim, is more common than the rest of EU.
One of the few good things from Communism I guess - although the methods used were disgusting