Facing challenges including brain drain and regional disparities, Latvia must lean into innovation and green growth to fuel its economic recovery and address demographic...
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The 2024 European elections are expected to bring more populists into the European Parliament, leading—at least in the short term—to a new way of doing politics, one...
Western governments don’t know exactly what Vladimir Putin is likely to do next, but they do know enough to start preparing for the worst. For the past three months...
Amid economic strains and shifting political loyalties, Hungary’s latest mass protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signals a turning tide, with former...
Falsely blaming Ukraine and the West for the recent Moscow terrorist attack, Vladimir Putin will launch a further mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russians—many...
Turkey’s political landscape is undergoing a transformation, and the results of last weekend’s local elections could herald significant shifts in the...
A new advertising campaign from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius wants to show just how outdated stereotypes about Eastern Europe really are. It’s a drum that...
The EU will only take Armenia’s European integration seriously when its prime minister shows his country is committed to the territory integrity of states and supportive...
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s cumulative real GDP growth lags behind that of its regional peers, and living standards are at about one-third of the EU average. Bosnia...
A recent OECD survey in large part confirms the findings of our The Future of Emerging Europe report that claimed real progress in Romania—struggling to contain the...
Slovakia’s economy has weathered the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent energy crisis relatively well. However, this has come at the cost of high deficits, debt and...
The European Union, with its commitment to upholding democratic values, should take decisive action in addressing the erosion of freedom of speech in Bosnia and...
Despite the recession of 2023 and the challenges posed by emigration, Lithuania has ample opportunity to drive growth through innovation, particularly in the technology...
