Maia Sandu ending the ‘rule of thieves’ in Moldova
The election of Maia Sandu as President of Moldova in 2020 and the victory for the party she founded at this year’s Moldovan parliamentary election provide a window of opportunity… Read more »
Category: Central/Eastern Europe
Discrediting democracy in ‘sharp power’ battle of ideas
Opinions of American democracy have declined overseas even as other forms of US power remain in high regard, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Centre. “A median… Read more »
New generation of ‘spin autocrats’ challenging West’s liberal order
Authoritarian influence, an especially effective tool for Russia, is targeting European Union (EU) member states in order to break EU solidarity and manipulate European foreign policy, says a recent report… Read more »
MZP – Hungarian democracy’s last chance?
How long does it take an authoritarian populist to dismantle the institutions of a liberal democracy so completely that they become no longer salvageable? @JeremyCliffe asks in @NewStatesman https://t.co/c4QjhXLYxE —… Read more »
Is China forging a new Eastern bloc in CEE?
China’s economic and political footprint has expanded so quickly that many countries, even those with relatively strong state and civil society institutions like the advanced industrial democracies, have struggled to… Read more »
Civil society key to CEE’s democratic security
While reinforcing transnational cooperation between democratic allies, serious challenges confront the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) of 12 EU member states — all located in the east of Europe in between… Read more »
Don’t close EU door on Western Balkans
The European Union is signaling a watershed reversal of its enlargement policy, as reports out of Brussels suggest that EU leaders no longer support an assured path to membership for Western… Read more »
Democracies’ Balkans mandate in jeopardy
The continued presence of EUFOR/Operation Althea, the successor to the NATO peacekeeping force deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) at the end of the war, is at risk of being… Read more »
‘From poster child to problem child’: Georgia’s democratic crisis
Georgia’s long-accumulated achievements in building something approaching a democratic state are in danger of suffering death by a thousand cuts, says Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, specializing… Read more »
Balkans balk at EU backsliding
The Balkans Don’t Believe the EU Anymore, Atlantic Council analysts Benjamin Haddad and Damir Marusic argue in Foreign Policy. The fact that EU members such as Hungary and Poland are backsliding… Read more »