The European Union’s response to the coronavirus outbreak was met with disappointment in the Balkans– with many seeing the measures as another blow to the Union’s...
Opinion
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The question of whether the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia produced significant reforms, goes into determining their...
Engineering touches almost every aspect of our contemporary lives. But for the greater part of human history, the industry has been dominated by one gender. Despite...
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the joy that greeted the rejuvenation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe has dissipated to a considerable degree...
The sales industry is infamous for having one of the highest employee churn rates of any business sector. Figures from a study conducted by The Bridge Group, which...
After the fall of communism Hungary was enthusiastic to join the European integration project in order to ensure that it did not fall back into the Russian sphere of...
He’s not a bad man. Just a sad man. Living alone, with his cat. Once a charming man, so they say. The death of his twin brother in a 2010 plane crash was the turning...
Improved economic policy frameworks have helped Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Black Sea sovereigns recover from the 2014 commodity price slump and Ukraine...
Elections in Slovakia have long given analysts a challenge: how to define or categorise the political orientation of increasingly numerous, powerful yet atypical parties...
The EU’s engagement with Belarus has been limited due to the country’s political oppression, human rights abuses, and close ties to Russia. And, unlike some other...
In recent years, the European Union has seen its future be capsized by internal and external pressures, through the rise of populist movements, the US push for...
The most puzzling aspect of Azerbaijan’s recent elections for its National Assembly (Milli Majlis) was not the outcome. It never is. The electoral process is tightly...