Neighbors Shape Eastern Political Reality

In many post‑communist communities people treat interpersonal networks (neighbors, friends, family) as primary news sources because historical experience taught them to distrust official media. That local, experience‑based information ecology produces different perceptions of issues like migration, crime, and governance than those created by Western media and expert narratives. — If informal, neighbor‑based information dominates large voter blocs, policies and media strategies that assume trust in elite institutions will misread and mismanage political risk across the EU.