Polish President Andrzej Duda launched a fierce attack against the European Union on September 11, as he spoke at a meeting of residents of Leżajsk, in Podkarpackie...
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A referendum on changing Romania’s constitution, backed by the ruling PSD and its leader – convicted criminal Liviu Dragnea, is set to be held on October 7. Were...
Viktor Orbán’s crushing victory in April’s parliamentary elections left half of Hungary devastated. Having secured his third consecutive supermajority, the Hungarian PM...
It’s not easy to get to Poland’s Krynica Zdrój, a tiny town on the southern border with Slovakia. Kraków, the closest large city, is 150 kilometres or a two-and-a-half...
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...
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...
The conflict between Poland and the EU intensified on August 27 after deputy prime minister Jarosław Gowin (pictured above) stated that Poland intended to ignore the...
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...
With the remarkable sight of rain-soaked Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović consoling her team after the World Cup final in Moscow still fresh in the memory, it...
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...
Czech President Miloš Zeman has again courted controversy by refusing to make any speeches or attend events commemorating the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968...
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...
