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Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 August 2016

This is a crucial step for the government before year-end, together with long-term banking issues and slowing economic recovery. The European Commission has allowed Italy…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 July 2017

The Law and Justice (PiS) government has already enacted a bill changing the appointment system for the National Council of the Judiciary and another bill makes the justice…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 May 2023

Greece is bracing for a tight contest, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy (ND) party’s lead over its main rival, the leftist Syriza, narrowing. The…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 April 2018

The ruling party’s landslide promises Hungary more of the same. However, a degree of uncertainty lingers in the short-to-medium term. The party has structural weaknesses, but to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 May 2015

The threat to ruling Fidesz from radical Jobbik.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 May 2017

The EP vote could in theory lead to sanctions under Article 7 of the EU Treaty (TEU). An 'illiberal state' has emerged in Hungary since 2010, profoundly and durably modifying the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 January 2019

Sweden's new government.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 5 April 2023

Djukanovic has governed as either prime minister or president since 1991, overseeing its 2006 independence, the start of EU membership talks and the 2017 accession to NATO…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 6 April 2017

The governing Socialist Party (PSSh) under Prime Minister Edi Rama is expected to win again. This implies policy continuity by what has hitherto been a successful reformist…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 2 November 2022

The first triggering of the EU’s rule-of-law mechanism and the possibility of losing billions of euros as Hungary teeters on the brink of recession have put the government under…

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