In January 2018, eleven years after joining the European Union (EU), Bulgaria assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU — an institution...
Opinion
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The labour force in Georgia is equally distributed between rural and urban areas, slightly more than half – 57 per cent – resides in rural areas. The...
The history of Georgian-Russian relations is the history of Georgia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia has played the major role in the creation and development...
The Trump administration has so far provided Georgia with a great deal of military support, although NATO membership still looks to be a long way off.
Georgia must decide if it wants to push for EU membership on its own, or part of a larger, regional enlargement, says Ivane Chkhikvadze of the Open Society Georgia...
Freedom of the press has proven, time and time again, to be an unpredictable and tumultuous factor in south, east and central Europe. Journalists are obstructed in their...
There has been an increase in the volume of dialogue between the EU and Azerbaijan of late, notably the visits of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev’s to Brussels in...
Demography has been an issue in Bulgaria for more than three decades. The country’s population registered its peak in the mid-1980s, when it was about to reach figure of...
The Czech Republic has a long tradition of public euroscepticism, well documented by the pre- and post-accession Eurobarometer opinion polls which rank it among the...
Greece and Macedonia appear to be inching toward a settlement on a decades-long dispute over who owns the name “Macedonia.” But with nationalism in both countries rising...
The landslide victory of the populist movement ANO in last October’s general elections in the Czech Republic, as well as the success of Tomio Okamura’s far-right SPD has...
Israel, as an enemy, has been chosen perfectly. It is ruled by right-wing populists, so it has been possible to accurately predict the mirror mechanism of sharp...
