The six Western Balkan countries — Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Albania, have been “state captured” by corrupt politicians, linked...
Opinion
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In 2018, developments in Europe were guided by a triangle of interactions between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian...
Around the world, countries are spending more on their militaries, a trend that is already evident in the Western Balkans. In 2018, global military expenditure rose to 1...
The right-wing ruling party’s strategy is based on claiming to offer socio-economic stability and prosperity while downplaying controversial issues to avoid mobilising...
For more than a thousand years of its history, Poland (and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe) was a perennial economic underachiever, stranded on the distant...
When Clark Curtis, a former director of communications at the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte learned that his old friend Mirsad Hadžikadić was...
Nations are not Europe’s number one problem. It seems, however, that it is precisely the existence of national member states of the EU that is being identified as the...
Demonstrations have been taking place in Budapest for the past few days, with police using tear gas to disperse thousands of people, mostly youngsters, shouting various...
Opposition to the Global Compact on Migration is driven more by politics than reality. But dismissing criticisms for not being grounded in fact misses the point; these...
“Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate change. If we don’t take action, the...
Earlier this year, Tesla’s Elon Musk admitted that an over-reliance on robotic automation and too few human workers is partly to blame for delays in manufacturing...
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have faced many problems during the transition period from centrally planned economies to the free market. After almost three...
