An alliance of convenience in the Romanian parliament is playing a dangerous game with the country’s energy future. While the ...

Driving through the quiet, agricultural landscape of northern Lithuania, where rolling fields are dotted with small farms and sleepy communities, one does not immediately expect to encounter a ...

Armenia is currently undergoing a seismic change in how society relates to the state. While high politics remains an ...

One institution singled Serbia out as a problem. The other did not consider it worth naming. Read together, the two verdicts describe a single condition. Serbia has slipped into the blind spot of ...

In Sofia today, you can board a tram or trolleybus and pay simply by tapping your bank card. Bulgaria uses the euro, belongs fully to Schengen, and has gained unprecedented cultural visibility in ...

Beneath the daily headlines lies a deeper question, one that the West has faced before and may soon face again: what should its relationship with Russia look like when the guns eventually fall silent?

Europe’s Russia policy has strong potential but lacks the domestic political conditions to effectively implement it. Sanctions architecture, defence commitments, and support for Ukrainian sovereignty ...

Revolutions are a lot like geometry. Euclidean geometry tells us that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. In this sense, revolutions are the shortest route to political ...

In December 2025, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council member Eva Merkacheva asked Vladimir Putin to perform a “holiday miracle”. Appealing on behalf of people with disabilities and mothers ...

In May 2025, during NATO’s “Hedgehog” exercise in Estonia, a team of ten Ukrainian drone operators successfully simulated the destruction of 17 armoured vehicles, and by conducting about 30 strikes ...

The South Caucasus is frequently described as a geopolitical space situated “between” larger powers, a formulation that reduces it to a passive object of external competition and obscures its enduring ...

Foreign policy played a significant role in the 2026 election campaign in Hungary. By accusing the opposition of serving the interests of Brussels and Ukraine, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party tried to ...