The concept of civil society is a product imported into Latvia in the 1990s. It was rooted into the idea that democracy could be stabilised by promoting people’s self...
Opinion
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When I said in my interviews two years ago that the Law and Justice party (PiS) was a threat to democracy, many journalists took the position of symmetry and, in a...
When people think of Kosovo, they probably remember the war-torn country in the late 1990s. What they probably don’t think of is the fact that there is no place in...
Where can you feel the pulse of central and eastern Europe (CEE)? The answer is easy, you just have to set three days of the first week of September aside to attend the...
In the US and Western Europe, private debt has become mainstream and an investment class of its own. In Romania, as well as the majority of CEE countries, it is still a...
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...
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...