That's an outdated rating. Poland is now ahead of Latvia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, and Portugal. West-East divide between Europea

That's an outdated rating. Poland is now ahead of Latvia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, and Portugal. West-East divide between European countries almost does not exist anymore. Czechia is richer than Spain, Slovenia is dead close to UK. Where we had like 3x gap 30 years ago there's at most a 1.4x gap. Poorest: Portugal vs Bulgaria. Richest: Denmark to Slovenia. And groups already intersect. "Eastern Europe" the way it lives in public imagination, within the EU, only exists in rural Bulgaria and some of the poorest (mostly Eastern) parts of Romania. There, it is mostly due to the ethnic composition of population and will probably always stay that way.