Differences within the EU over how to deal with a resurgent Russia, the path toward (and participation in) resolution of the Ukraine crisis, accommodating Middle Eastern refugees, and the ongoing problem of adjustment in the Eurozone periphery are among the issues increasingly dividing Western European EU members from those of Central and Eastern Europe.  Poland, the largest country in the post Cold War EU enlargement and by most measures a success story in European integration, sits astride the tensions and recriminations across an East-West fissure in the EU.  Working cooperatively and building common positions with Germany has arguably enhanced Poland’s security, but opponents of this approach see it as having exposed Poland to unwanted migrants and an alien outlook on questions of the family, education, and attitudes toward ethnic, religious and sexual minorities.  A tendency toward disenchantment with the EU is also manifest to some degree in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.  This panel will examine the accomplishments and failures of the projection of European values (tolerance, compromise, civic -- versus ethnic -- citizenship, cultural pluralism, social protections) to Central and Eastern Europe.  We will also ask how the euro-skepticism of Central and Eastern Europe compares with that increasingly prevalent in Western Europe.