Ukraine is no longer just a recipient of NATO support, it is increasingly reshaping the Alliance itself. From ...

The recent victory of Péter Magyar in Hungary suggests that Budapest’s pro-Russia policies are coming to an end. This closeness with Moscow has a long legacy that is ultimately related to how ...

Foreign policy played a significant role in the 2026 election campaign in Hungary. By accusing the opposition of serving the interests of Brussels and Ukraine, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party tried to ...

On April 12th, Hungary held what many analysts had described as one of the most consequential elections in Europe in recent years. Pre-election polling suggested that Viktor Orbán’s 16-year hold on ...

“Any efforts aimed at changing a society must, above all, be based on the belief that every person is capable of change. And that this change can be influenced in some way – slowly, carefully, with ...

Europe’s Russia policy has strong potential but lacks the domestic political conditions to effectively implement it. Sanctions architecture, defence commitments, and support for Ukrainian sovereignty ...

Revolutions are a lot like geometry. Euclidean geometry tells us that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. In this sense, revolutions are the shortest route to political ...

On April 12th, Hungarian voters chose to put an end to Fidesz’s 16-year rule. Viktor Orbán suffered a crushing two-thirds electoral defeat, ending one of Europe’s longest and seemingly most entrenched ...

Since its establishment in October 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Platform for Dialogue with Russian democratic forces in exile has now completed both its winter ...

As we are well into the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, old questions are beginning to stir from beneath the surface, particularly: how should the West engage with Russia, if at ...

When the Russian government decided to block Telegram in February 2026 amid strengthening censorship and all-out mobile internet shutdowns, activists in cities throughout Russia decided to ask ...