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U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders attend the Three Seas Initiative Summit of Eastern European countries at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, on July 6, 2017. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Infrastructure is the lifeblood of a healthy economy. For more than 40 years, the infrastructure in Central and Eastern European countries remained underdeveloped as the entire region was subjected to exploitation by their communist rulers.