We can hardly expect a significant increase in the short term of the influence of the CEE region on the EU economic policy. Its countries do not form effective coalitions, as exemplified by the inconsistent actions of the Visegrad Group.

The right for asylum is an individual right, and it cannot be claimed en masse.

How foreign and domestic policy spillovers are pushing Turkey towards the abyss.

In the medium term, almost all economic government proposals will weaken rather than accelerate growth and at the same time reduce economic stability.

China’s unprecedented interest in Central and Eastern Europe is a great opportunity for structural development and a way to escape middle income trap for some countries. The success, however, is uncertain: the whole project may bring more bad than good for the region.

In 1543, a prominent physician Andrés Laguna presented an address at the University of Cologne, in which he referred to a woman who had come to him for medical assistance: “A woman came to me who looked to be in a very bad way: she was weeping uncontrollably, sorrowful, pale, her arms and legs were…

Agreement on Good Neighborly Relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia faces serious difficulties related to the crucial issue of nationality.

This is perhaps the most common phrase one hears these days when Romanian analysts and decision-makers talk geopolitics.

All those who thought that post-Maidan Ukraine could easily reform itself have to think twice. The last two years’ experience proves that this process will be long-lasting, with many obstacles, and its results remain uncertain.

The US president has failed to realize that America’s failure to engage in the world’s affairs may result in far worse consequences than its active involvement, even if it is not without mistakes.

NATO rhetoric is based on an erroneous interpretation of Putin’s behavior, claiming that his intent is to restore the USSR. In reality, such rhetoric is aimed at legitimizing US efforts to maintain its global dominance.

Cameron’s aim to loosen but retain confederal ties between London and Brussels raises the possibility not only of Brexit, but also of Euroexit.

An Interview with Dominique Moisi by Maciej NowickiPerhaps Angela Merkel has gone too far in her hospitality and openness. Still, she did something which a great politician should do: she defined the refugee problem in moral terms—says Dominique Moisi in an interview with Maciej Nowicki.

It seems almost too easy to write about the next big crisis. We can be comfortably assured that it is going to occur and there is certainly no shortage of candidates. What is certain is that the age of hope ushered in by the annus mirabilis of 1989 has ended. It may be necessary to…

The situation in Poland is a European norm, a symptom of a wider European development, rather than an exception.

European elections with clear policy alternatives on offer might help to save us from an anti-pluralist universe in which there is only space for populism and technocracy.

The populist and radical parties in Central Europe promise to their voters what liberal democracy cannot give them—the old sense of victory as a game without rules and revenge against real or imagined wrong doers.

The decay of political institutions, particularly of the mainstream parties of the post-war settlement, has been evident for some time. The most dramatic manifestation of this trend is the widespread public mood of distrust of politicians and even of politics.