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Originally published on 08.11.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: Political crisis in North Macedonia, new amnesty legislation in Azerbaijan, Kazakh [...]

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 [...]

Are you driving a Lamborgini or a Lada? Gloria Trifonova on how wealth inequality has contributed to the current political crisis in Bulgaria.

Originally published on 01.11.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: An upcoming gathering of European far-right leaders in Kosovo, local elections [...]

Martina Bergamaschi explores the new art scene of the Ukrainian Donbas and speaks to the founder of Gareleya Neotodryosh, Vitaly Matukhno.

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the brutal 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region (known in Armenia as Artsakh), many have reflected on the conflict [...]

Originally published on 25.10.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: The latest EU Enlargement Package discussing EU membership candidacy in the Balkans, local [...]

Originally published on 18.10.2021. Subscribe to our Weekly here. In this week’s newsletter 📮: The results of local elections in Georgia; Police clashes in [...]

"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 [...]