Who Gets to Claim History?
In a divided Poland, the trajectory of liberal democracy over the past 30 years is seen as a success by the liberal left. The ruling national conservatives have a very different narrative.
Two Member States Don’t Enter, One Leaves?Boris Johnson has traded a hypothetical, temporary, […]
No Earthquake in Poland, But Some ShiftsThe right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party won […]
On the “Middle Corridor,” China Is Largely AbsentLinking China and Europe via the Caspian Sea, the […]
What China’s “Chips Endeavor” Can Teach EuropeChina’s efforts to develop its AI chip industry could […]
The Iberian DivideWhile Portugal’s António Costa has managed to forge a […]
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+++ 30 years after the Iron Curtain fell, the myth of the West is waning, warn Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura; former Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg pleads for “more honesty” in relations between Western and Eastern Europe; Milan Nic points to six big questions facing EU members in Central and Eastern Europe; Christian Schubert profiles Christine Lagarde, future head of the European Central Bank; Noah Gordon, in his Carbon Critical column, looks into the German meat tax debate; Marina Watson Peláez explains the meaning of “geringonça“; Alex Massie describes the “Johnson maneuver”; Which German question is back?, asks Hans Kundnani in our Red Herring & Black Swan column; and much more +++