The fourth anniversary of the Euromaidan Revolution approaches and President Petro Poroshenko’s government finds itself confronted with impatience, both from the...
Opinion
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Seen from Vienna, the strong economic upswing currently evident across much of CEE is particularly welcome. Austria is a small, open economy in the middle of Europe, and...
The first casualty of war, goes the old saying, is truth. Much the same can be said of Europe’s heated and ill-tempered debate on immigration. Peoples’ fears of being...
Could a pan-European demand-driven immigration system – a standardised approach consistently applied across the entire Schengen area – be the answer to Europe’s...
There is no denying that the European Union, at the moment of its inception, was an elite project. People like Robert Schuman, Alcide de Gasperi or Altiero Spinelli were...
Since Bulgaria became a member of the EU, remarkable progress has been made towards building a modern European country with a strong economy and a balanced budget...
Two big differences divide the eleven central European countries which joined the European Union from the twelve post-Soviet countries that were left out. Those two...
Since 2014, the security situation in the borderland between Russia and the European Peninsula has deteriorated. Expectations of an extended period of normalised...
The real estate market in Bulgaria over the past year has progressed, achieving record levels in a number of major segments. The indicators point towards further growth...
Over the past eight years Hungarian democracy suffered a lot under the regime of Viktor Orbán. Before 2010 Hungary was a young, but relatively stable democracy with...
NATO has recently updated its website to mention Ukraine as one of four aspirant countries. Ironically, several top Ukrainian officials jumped at the chance to portray...
Poland is currently undergoing significant political change. It has been almost 30 years since the systematic transformation of 1989, but as Polish politicians, we are...
