Central-Eastern Europe

Viktor Orbán, not yet sixty, is the longest serving Prime Minister in Hungarian history, as well as in contemporary Europe. On April 3, Orbán was elected to lead the country for a fourth consecutive term, his fifth term in total. His party,…

What can the West do collectively, and otherwise, in support of Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSNudH6y2Ao Watch also: The Russian challenge in Ukraine and a divided Western alliance More…

 Negli ultimi mesi, i difficili rapporti con la Russia hanno riacceso un grande interesse per la vicenda dell’allargamento a Est della NATO dopo la fine della Guerra fredda. Intanto, conviene partire da una precisazione storica: dalla sua…

In Hungary under Viktor Orbán’s rule, the first year of the pandemic and the accompanying crises have seen increasing levels of polarization and volatility. Ironically, just as the country’s borders have remained closed to international…

In May 2014, the European Union celebrated 10 years since its Eastern enlargement: between 2004 and 2007 twelve more countries from Eastern and Central Europe joined the 15 member states, symbolically signaling an end in their transition…