The EU wants to boost cooperation with its eastern partners. But how committed are they to upholding EU values? Belarus last week pulled out of the EU’s Eastern...
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Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán finds himself some rather unsavoury company on a new list of rogue leaders clamping down on press freedom. Hungarian Prime Minister...
Russia has responded to NATO’s largest ever Black Sea exercise by organising out live fire manoeuvres of its own. NATO and several partner states from six...
Former PM Donald Tusk has returned to frontline Polish politics on a mission to revive the fortunes of the country’s opposition. Donald Tusk, a former prime...
Russia is currently bailing out Belarus to the tune of 2-3 billion US dollars a year, but will it insist on taking over a chunk of Belarus’s largest state-owned...
Albanians no longer need residence permits to live and work in Kosovo. Analysts say the move brings Kosovo closer to joining the so-called Western Balkans Mini-Schengen...
A quick Covid-19 recovery, low unemployment and fast increasing wages are driving inflation in Central Europe. Is it time for national banks to step in? Central European...
NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has left the states of Central Asia exposed to renewed Taliban offensives. The past few weeks have been grim for Afghanistan...
A new law in Poland sets a 30-year deadline for the recovery of property seized by Nazi Germany and subsequently nationalised by Poland’s communist-era government...
Slovenia takes over the EU presidency at a crucial time, with the bloc facing significant problems including Covid-19 and a stalled enlargement process that risks...
Hungary’s recent law banning all content aimed at minors which references the LGBT+ community is just the latest in a series that goes against the fundamental laws and...
Armenia’s embattled prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, managed to overcome the fallout of a disastrous defeat in last year’s war with Azerbaijan to win a landslide victory...
Belgrade’s city government is pushing forward with its policy of renaming Yugoslav-era streets. With other capitals in the former Yugoslavia having done so in the...
