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Sarajevo. Bosnia was once the poster child for international reconstruction efforts, flooded with attention and $14bn of international aid, making it a laboratory for arguably the most expensive and innovative democratisation experiment in history (Photo: Michał Huniewicz) If Bosnia and…
With the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, southern EU member states constitute a fairly homogeneous group led by pro-European governments and pro-EU leaderships, despite their governments belonging to different political groups (Photo: morberg) Regional groupings have been gaining influence in the…
The Hungarian parliament in Budapest (Photo: Wikimedia) Dear Editor, While authors Emese Pásztor and Sanjay Sethi in EUobserver take a rather biased stance on Hungary’s state of danger due to the Covid pandemic and now the war in Ukraine, in…
The CSTO, a military alliance of Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Georgia is meeting in Moscow next week to discuss Ukraine (Photo: kremlin.ru) The leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), including Russia, Kazakhstan,…
Are you using it, or is it watching you? The Israeli-made Pegasus spy software has been used against politicians, journalists and human rights defenders around the world (Photo: The Council of the European Union) In mid-December 2021, 60 MEPs sent…
Hong Kong protests in 2019 (Photo: Studio Incendo) On Sunday (8 May), a band of hand-picked Beijing loyalists coronated Chinese mainland marionette, John Lee, as Hong Kong’s next chief executive in a one-horse race for the city’s top job. Chosen…
In Slovenia, one of the Friday cycling protests’ figureheads was ordered by the state attorney to pay more than €50,000 in fines, allegedly to cover the costs of policing the anti-government protests (Photo: Peter Teffer) Europe Day (Monday, 9 May)…
On Lukoil’s official website it states: ‘We always guarantee you the lowest prices on the market'. But at what price? (Photo: Marta Barandiy/Promote Ukraine) For one month now, the volunteers of NGO “Promote Ukraine”, armed with photos of dead Ukrainian…
Intriguingly, it has taken the EU executive more than a year to process, assess and release the findings of their first-ever such report (Photo: EUobserver) EU institutions have failed to create an inclusive culture for Europeans of colour and people…
A recent survey of more than 900 women journalists in 125 countries found that 73 percent had experienced online violence (Photo: Marco Fieber) Journalists have long been targeted for truth-telling; but the methods deployed to silence independent reporting have broadened.…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has expedited discussion of a new format for relations with Ukraine, but also for Moldova and Georgia (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) The EU’s Eastern Partnership has been a key instrument in promoting democratic development across the region…
The delegation of MEPs outside Kyiv last week (Photo: Alde) Air sirens are now such a regular part of daily life in Ukraine that they are numb to its droning tones. Some Kyivans, in an act of defiance — but…