Many Poles were outraged by abortion restrictions put in place during the previous government. That doesn’t mean they agree on the path forward.
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The shooting of Robert Fico was ‘politically motivated,’ authorities say.
The prime minister remains in hospital after being shot at close range.
The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
The autocratic Law and Justice Party looks set to be turfed out by a center-left coalition, which gained more than half of all votes.
Soros’ giving has revolved around the concept that people thrive in open societies because they can freely express themselves.
A scholar of Jewish history explains how the term ‘pogrom’ lives in Jewish collective memory and why its use can be highly contentious.
The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
A memorial took place on April 27, 2022 for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died in March at age 84. Many of the foreign policy concepts she helped bring to the post-Cold War world remain.
The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria all showed early signs of success but have since seen their COVID-19 cases rise.
After a decade of cooperation, central and eastern Europe increasingly sees China as a threat.
Death rates are low in the region but this has largely gone ignored.
The government now has the power to do whatever it deems necessary to manage the crisis, effectively for an unlimited period of time.
A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
This Sunday Hungarians vote whether to return prime minister Viktor Orbán to office. The choice they make will affect the future of their country, and Europe.
The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
Miloš Zeman, who has been re-elected for a second five year term at the Czech president, is not a run of the mill national populist.
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Professor of International Management & Political Economy, Loughborough University
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Lecturer, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow
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Géopoliticien, Sciences Po
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Senior Lecturer, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
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Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Chinese Politics, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Assistant professorial lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in Security Studies, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Global Policy, European University Institute
