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Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 October 2017

Ukraine's new education law was designed to reduce the role of Russian in schools but has enraged EU states with minorities in the country as well as Moscow. Hungary has…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 October 2015

A rift has opened between the eleven former communist EU member states (EU-11), and such older members as Germany and Sweden, over attitudes towards immigrants and refugees, who…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 August 2018

It will change if 50%+1 of the electorate participate and 50%+1 of them approve. The government’s greatest hope for winning the referendum may be to provoke the Internal…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 30 June 2017

The 17 cases concern abuse of institutional capacities, abuse of office and violation of public procurement procedure. Janeva indicated that she might ask for the detention of 18…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 11 July 2022

North Macedonia’s government and EU member states have welcomed a framework proposed in the final days of France’s EU Council presidency for opening EU accession talks with…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 29 August 2023

The far right is making gains in Romania and its neighbour Bulgaria. The rise of AUR and Bulgaria’s populist pro-Russian Revival (Vazrazhdane) party will bolster other extremist…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 29 January 2024

Polls suggest the opposition Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation-Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) will win the parliamentary elections, although the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 2 May 2019

Russian attempts to influence European politics and elections.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 October 2020

The annexe aims to prevent Bulgaria vetoing the EU-NM inter-governmental conference (IGC) in December. Working groups from both foreign ministries have been created to discuss…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 September 2020

This revamped version of the 2017-19 government has the support of just 62 members of the 120-seat parliament. It keeps the same prime minister, Zoran Zaev of the SDSM, and the…

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