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...
Tag - Economy & Politics
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...
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...
Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president, has for the fourth time since taking office used his power of veto. This time he has refused to sign into law changes to the way in...
Anamaria Dutceac Segesten is a political scientist and director of Central and Eastern European Studies at Lund University. A specialist in the political use of social...
There are moments in history when things go wild, when the order of things is being questioned, put in doubt, or actually assailed. Such moments occur when dominant...
Putting migration on the table in future trade talks and ensuring EU workers are not subject to burdensome non-EU visa rules are two key recommendations included in Open...
Two major reports describing the systemic torture of prisoners, together with an electoral system which falls far short of international standards, have once again...
