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

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

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

As the United States marks 250 years of independence, Kyiv and European capitals are watching the celebration with a mix of admiration and alarm. What they see in America's jubilee says as much about ...

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 ...

In the mid-1970s some of Masha Karp’s friends gave her a copy of an illicit text. Over a couple of days she devoured it. “Is it safe to keep the book at home overnight?,” her mother asked at the ...

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 ...

Now in its fifth year, the Russia-Ukraine war presents Europe with a different challenge — not of immediate response, but of its capacity to maintain strategic coherence. The conflict has evolved into ...

Russia has captured roughly one per cent of additional Ukrainian territory over the past four years of its full-scale war against Ukraine. That stark figure alone should give pause to anyone prepared ...

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, ...

As we are well into the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, old questions are beginning to stir from beneath the surface, particularly: how should the West engage with Russia, if at ...