Both South Korea and Romania have the potential to be much more than standard-issue offshore balancers. They can serve as power-projection transmission channels as well...
Opinion
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Georgia’s freedom fighters have one last chance to fight authoritarianism—but they need ECHR support
With an appeal to Georgia’s Constitutional Court to strike down an anti-European law likely to be in vain, civil society should turn to the European Court of Human...
Technology has ended the need to choose richness or reach as a strategy, which has provided the basis of the success for many online businesses—such as Romania’s eMag...
Georgia must adapt its national security strategies to counter not only traditional aggression but also the ‘grey zone operations’ that threaten its sovereignty in what...
President Alexander Lukashenko will almost certainly use his country’s accession to the Eurasian multilateral grouping as a pretext to carry on inundating Poland and the...
Of the EU’s 27 member states, 23 have seen protests by farmers in 2024. Despite this wave of action by the agricultural sector, not a single candidate has been nominated...
The rest of the world needs a gateway into the EU, and CEE can make an increasingly competitive pitch in this sense. Eastern Europe and the wider CEE area have spent a...
European football’s governing body needs to enforce stricter discipline to restore order on and off the pitch. UEFA has been a frequent fixture in the headlines...
As Georgia rallied against government overreach earlier this year, and then cheered its footballers at Euro 2024, a new country began to emerge—determined, united, and...
In order to end years of political instability, Bulgaria might need to start thinking seriously about changing its electoral system. Following the announcement of the...
Secular policies alone are unlikely to shield malleable Tajik youth from the hiring spree Salafist Militia Groups have embarked on across Central Asia. The upper house...
Brussels must maintain sight of the fact that true market fairness means empowering consumers with genuine choice and convenience, not just dismantling monopolies...
