Few countries succeed as discreetly as Slovenia does. The low profile rather flatters the place, but capital follows ...

Before we start using and teaching AI in schools, perhaps we should ourselves learn more about what exactly we want to ...

Spain is regularising half a million migrants as other governments shut the door. The backlash at home has been milder than ...

The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no ...

Poland is on course to graduate from the World Bank. That a rich, high-income economy still has a programme is no failure, ...

Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. In October 2025 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Turkmenistan’s ...

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History in Central and Eastern Europe is rarely simple. The legacy of Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnitskiy – a hero to some, traitor to others – is just one example, a fascinating case study of how ...

Hungary is leading European engagement with Turkic nations, with its motives rooted in a nationalist narrative that benefits Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. In mid-November 2022, the leaders of ...

Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin has courted controversy with several statements about the so-called Serbian World, an idea that Serbs living in the Western Balkans should be part of the ...

The first significant Russian strategic defeat as a direct consequence of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the loss of its Mediterranean outpost. Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine has led ...

The collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s unleashed devastating conflicts across the Balkans and reshaped the political map of Europe. As new independent nation states emerged from the ashes of the ...