November 24, 2019, proved to be yet another historic day for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Platform for Progress Movement. On a sunny, cool day in the city of Banja...
Opinion
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On Friday, January 10, Viorel Morari, Moldova’s Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, was detained. Initially held for 72 hours, Morari’s arrest was extended on January 13 for a...
With 2020 now begun, the world is more interconnected and, in many ways, closer than ever. The leap that my family made in the last century from India to Europe now...
A typical characteristic in the Nordics is weather obsession. Any day, at any time of the year, you can ask us about the exact temperature, both of the air and of the...
I have been a member of the European Parliament since July 2019. My previous career was in journalism; but, today, I am on the other side of the microphone. Honestly...
‘Climate strike’ is the Collins Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year, reflecting how climate demonstrations have drawn millions of participants worldwide...
My first 100 days in the Latvian Parliament have passed. This is usually the moment when the public first measures what politicians have done and achieved. In...
In a somewhat surprising move, the European Council did not agree to give the green light for the official opening of accession talks to Albania in 2019. That was...
Since mid-November, opposition protests have been taking place in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. They were sparked by the Georgian parliament’s failure to amend the...
Clichés about Central and Eastern Europe are probably as common in the press as jokes in Boris Johnson’s speeches. And although their repertoire might look repetitive to...
While some countries like Venezuela remain stuck with socialism, others are quietly transitioning from repression to openness. Uzbekistan is one of those countries...
In a speech before the European Parliament in mid-July of this year, the president-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen indicated that four key issues...