Central Europe

Poland's conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) has been ruling the country for the past decade. Looking ahead at the 2023 election it seems like PiS is taking aim at a third consecutive win, [...]

The crisis on the EU's eastern border has undermined Poland's human rights record and is a missed opportunity to show the full potential of inter-EU cooperation, writes Agnieszka Widlaszewska.

Ville Haapanen on the recent parliamentary election in Czechia and the future of now-ousted Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

On 21 October, leaders from across the EU gathered in Brussels for what would be the final farewell ceremony to Germany’s departing chancellor, Angela Merkel. With warm tributes to her leadership [...]

"Armchair historians rejoice. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse is the book you didn’t know you were waiting for." Book review by Katherine Leung.

"The stories of a common glorified past are not a recent invention. Especially in times of historical change, they help to raise the international prestige of a state and strengthen existing [...]

In this personal mix of storytelling and poems, we are taken on the life journey of a couple of expats, traveling from one country to the next in search of adventure, sometimes out of necessity, [...]

Trump’s “America First” adherents have been looking for an international counterpart who can demonstrate that their nativist, inward-looking brand of governance is succeeding beyond American [...]

Katherine Leung review Slavoj Žižek's latest book Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World.

Elodie Phillips's interviews Piotrek Gawliński, who is behind the increasingly popular @lostfoundEurope Twitter account, inviting you to walk the streets of the golden era of Central European cities.