A 30 per cent annual contraction in GDP is rarely good news, but for Ukraine it represents an important victory. Hardly had Russia launched its full-scale invasion of...
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From what a warming region means for Russia’s war on Ukraine to Romania and Bulgaria’s ambitions to join the Schengen area, here are five stories to follow...
Armed conflict between Kosovo and Serbia has been avoided. For now, that’s as much as anyone can hope for. In the end, Prishtina offered the tiniest of olive...
Blackouts across Ukraine have meant that ordinary people have had to take extraordinary measures in order to continue living ordinary lives. Russia’s massive...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Washington on December 21, his first foreign visit since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February. It could have...
The UN Security Council has called for an end to an Azeri blockade of the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. The sole road connecting the disputed region...
Russia’s disinformation campaign wants to convince Ukrainians that Poland is preparing to annex its western territories. It’s nonsense, but dangerous, and...
The arrest of MEP Eva Kaili over Qatar-linked bribery charges goes to show that kickbacks and shakedowns are just as brazenly entertained in Brussels as elsewhere in...
In the turbulent times we find ourselves, monetary policy alone cannot cope with containing inflation without bringing considerable costs in a form of recession and...
Bosnia and Herzegovina this week became a formal EU candidate, while Kosovo filed an application for EU membership. Neither country will be an EU member anytime soon...
Spooked by the real possibility of losing out on billions of euros of EU funds, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán backed down and approved a crucial new aid package...
Public support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has declined slightly since the start of the war, but the majority continue to support it. As the Russian invasion...
An electricity cable on the floor of the Black Sea might soon bring cheap, renewable energy from Azerbaijan to the heart of Europe, as the EU’s Global Gateway begins to...