Hungarian politics, from the system change of 1989 until 2010 – the first time Viktor Orbán achieved a constitutional majority – was characterised by a fundamental...
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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...
As the name suggests, Central Europe lies between Western Europe and Russia. This geographic situation – including a certain lack of natural borders – makes...
On December 28, 2018, GE Steam Power was granted what we call “Notice to Proceed” by the Polish utility Elektrownia Ostrołęka to build Block C, a 1,000 MW coal power...
Berlin has recently made headlines with vague announcements of its intention to take on more international responsibility. One way it has tried to do this is by being...
Those who claim the Cold War is back found grist for their mills on February 1, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the United States would suspend...
Since the 2014 change of government in Ukraine driven by the country’s pro-EU aspirations, and Russia’s subsequent war on the country, the state of affairs in Ukraine...
Poland’s most popular and charismatic left-wing politician’s new initiative has a good chance of achieving short-term success in this year’s elections. But the grouping...
The six Western Balkan countries — Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Albania, have been “state captured” by corrupt politicians, linked...
In 2018, developments in Europe were guided by a triangle of interactions between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian...
Around the world, countries are spending more on their militaries, a trend that is already evident in the Western Balkans. In 2018, global military expenditure rose to 1...
The right-wing ruling party’s strategy is based on claiming to offer socio-economic stability and prosperity while downplaying controversial issues to avoid mobilising...
For more than a thousand years of its history, Poland (and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe) was a perennial economic underachiever, stranded on the distant...