Recent protests across Albania and Europe are helping to highlight deep-seated problems in the country. What began as ...

From Schengen and the euro to brain drain and the concept of "imam chovek", Bulgaria's recent successes reveal a deeper ...

The contribution of Ukraine’s Roma community to defence asks questions as to the country’s post-war future. A truly inclusive ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina's attainment of EU candidate status in 2022 generated significant optimism regarding the acceleration ...

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in autumn 2025 have become systematic and highly targeted: the attacks focus primarily on substations, heat generation facilities and high-voltage ...

The Ukrainian author Andriy Lyubka is known for his keen sense of Ukraine’s global role, as well as his observations about contemporary Ukrainian life. His raucous novel Carbide followed Tys, a ...

In 2014, around a billion US dollars vanished from Moldova’s banking system, stolen from one of Europe’s poorest countries. The businessman later convicted in his absence of orchestrating the theft, ...

For more than three decades, a narrow strip of land along the Dniester river, wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, has existed as one of the world’s strangest political entities. With a population of ...

What would it take for the war in Ukraine to end in a way that lasts? Not a pause, but a durable peace, one in which Russia is neither willing nor able to threaten Ukraine, destabilize Europe, or ...

The intensification of peace negotiations, even though they are quite far from completion, has highlighted the importance of understanding the scenarios for ending the war in Ukraine, as well as the ...

Following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, western nations imposed sweeping sanctions with the primary aim of hurting the Russian economy. These included bank restrictions, export bans, ...

The Soviet regime’s transformations in the Romanian lands between the Dniester and Prut rivers after the Second World War – including administrative and territorial reforms, social reorganization, ...