Five months have passed since Hungary’s opposition won an unexpected victory in Budapest’s mayoral election. Less surprising has been the way in which the...
Opinion
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Our commitment to security in the wider Middle East means Western allies need to be more positive in dealing with Turkey, on the frontline of instability but short of...
What a difference two years of a mandate can make in politics: when he was elected president of France in 2017, Emmanuel Macron seemed to represent a bulwark against...
Tackling climate-related energy challenges in Bulgaria looks like the well-known story of seeing your dentist – the longer you put off going, the more painful and...
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...
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...
