Detailing the challenges Albania faces in its EU accession process may seem like an insurmountable task for a short opinion piece, but in considering some often...
Opinion
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We were super excited when the deal was signed. It was months of hard work and finally we’d got it done. This was going to be a big change to what had gone before. The...
The Polish Supreme Court has suspended some of the regulations in the Polish Act on the Supreme Court pertaining to the truncation of the retirement age, among others...
Managing politics in your twenties, although not uncommon, is still rare in Western societies, especially when somebody in his late twenties takes over the function of...
Being a young politician in the Balkans is challenging. If you add the fact that I am from Bosnia and Herzegovina into the mix, then to others it can be seen as a...
The western model, based on the care of democracy and the capitalist economic system, was the foundation on which the countries of central and eastern Europe were...
The current format of negotiations on the normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo under the auspices of the EU has come to a complete standstill...
The outlook for the Polish zloty suggests that Poland’s developing authoritarianism is likely to accelerate. For anyone taking an interest in global affairs over the...
In a well-functioning market economy, opportunities to receive an education, have a good job and earn a sufficient income should not be limited by gender, place of birth...
US-Europe relations have been on an uncertain footing ever since Donald Trump’s election as US president. On July 15, just after the challenging NATO summit and before...
There are moments in history when things go wild, when the order of things is being questioned, put in doubt, or actually assailed. Such moments occur when dominant...
Since 2013 GDP growth has picked up continuously in the EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe (EU-CEE), reaching an average of above four per cent in 2017...