As it currently stands, March 29, 2019, will be the date the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. Yet the British government is still not much closer to striking a...
Opinion
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On Friday, March 15, the people of Romania will stop working at precisely 15:00 hours for 15 minutes. The shut-down is an innovative form of protest demanding the...
The political tension between Kosovo and Serbia is creating a perfect environment wherein Turkey and Russia can lure the two countries into their respective spheres of...
Back in the early 1990s, the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe embarked on a journey to transform their centrally planned economies to market...
Is Vladimir Putin seeking to annex neighbouring Belarus and reunite former territories of the Soviet Union under Moscow’s control? Is Belarusian leader Aleksander...
When authoritarian ‘illiberal’ democracies developed themselves in Belarus (after 1994) and Russia (after 2000) it was considered a systemic mistake that...
Green Space Café is a tiny business on the outskirts of Tbilisi, next to the Ford Service Centre in Dighomi. It is far less prominent than TBC Bank, and, therefore, few...
The Viennese are known for their pessimism. However, even by Viennese standards, 2019 began with a lot of worries about the outlook for CEE. This is surprising...
I came of age during Romania’s post-communist transition, at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. I had lived, as a child, in totalitarianism, and...
There is a groundswell in Bosnia and Herzegovina as citizens (mostly young people) are beginning to embrace a vision of hope and change in their country—a change that...
Hungarian politics, from the system change of 1989 until 2010 – the first time Viktor Orbán achieved a constitutional majority – was characterised by a fundamental...
Since the last elections to the European Parliament (EP) more than 100 new political parties have been created in the EU. Most of them a result of the populist surge. If...
