With the EU still struggling to decouple from Russian energy, Estonia’s Sunly has raised 300 millions euros to boost energy security in the Baltics and Poland. As...
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CEE countries are not just assembly lines for Western Europe; they are also centres of innovation, talent, and investment. And the region’s people offer a sizeable...
With his country’s economy in such a precarious state, Viktor Orbán’s political grandstanding increasingly looks like a vanity project Hungary can ill afford. ...
Georgia’s freedom fighters have one last chance to fight authoritarianism—but they need ECHR support
With an appeal to Georgia’s Constitutional Court to strike down an anti-European law likely to be in vain, civil society should turn to the European Court of Human...
Georgia must adapt its national security strategies to counter not only traditional aggression but also the ‘grey zone operations’ that threaten its sovereignty in what...
Reluctant though they may be to form a functioning government, Bulgaria’s MPs this week did manage to come together to vote through a fast-tracked anti-LGBT+ law...
In August 2020, Belarus witnessed its most controversial election yet, leading to widespread protests and international condemnation. Four years on, the landscape...
Assessing Turkmenistan’s economic health is made difficult by a lack of transparency and restricted access for international observers. Turkmenistan, a Central Asian...
President Alexander Lukashenko will almost certainly use his country’s accession to the Eurasian multilateral grouping as a pretext to carry on inundating Poland and the...
Stripping Hungary of its right to host a key meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers is the latest sign that Brussels is ready to get serious about Viktor Orbán’s...
Central and Eastern Europe’s further integration into the global supply chain presents a unique set of opportunities for the region to drive economic development...
Of the EU’s 27 member states, 23 have seen protests by farmers in 2024. Despite this wave of action by the agricultural sector, not a single candidate has been nominated...
The rest of the world needs a gateway into the EU, and CEE can make an increasingly competitive pitch in this sense. Eastern Europe and the wider CEE area have spent a...