East-Central and Southeast Europe

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Dark Days for Democracy?

Democracy and the rule of law are suffering in many countries, with the rise of “illiberal” democracies or even outright …

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Analysis

Poland’s Difficult Balancing Act

Analysis

100 Years of Solitude: Latvia Celebrates its Independence

Analysis

Election Polls Versus Opinion Polls in Hungary

Analysis

Bulgaria’s EU Presidency: Normalizing Nationalism?

Analysis

The First Estonian Presidency of the EU: A Model Country Takes the Helm

Opinion

Serbia’s PM Vučić: Yet Another Populist Strongman?

Picture: Cracked EU vs Russia flags. Ukrainian crisis conceptual image. Foto: Bröckelnde Flaggen der EU und Russland.

Analysis

EU-Russia Sanctions: An Unsteady Deadlock

Analysis

No Blank Checks for Europe’s Populists

Presburg Castle in Bratislava

Analysis

Putting the Fox in Charge of the Hen House?

Skopje

Interview

“Citizens Need to Be Empowered to Support Democratic Change”

Opinion

Law and Justice Party Demolishes Democratic Consensus

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán © kremlin.ru

Opinion

Towards a Putinization of Central Europe?

Iași, Romania © dundanim/veer

Analysis

How to Protect Energy Consumers in Romania

Ralf Breth, the Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje, during a conference on good practices for political party and campaign financing in Skopje, October 2013 © OSCE/Silke Tittel (CC BY-ND 4.0)

Analysis

Too Small, Too Personal

© Ocean Photography/veer

Analysis

Progress and Roll-Back of Europeanization

Victor Orban during a debate in the European Parliament on the political situation in Hungary, January 2012 © European Union 2012 EP/Pietro Naj-Oleari

Opinion

Good Voters and Bad Voters

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