A stint teaching university students in Lithuania leaves a longtime economics professor optimistic about the future of Eastern Europe as it continues its transition to a free-market economy.
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A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
Four peace agreements have been struck to try and keep Ukraine on an even keel, but none of them has resolved the conflict’s fundamental problems.
Europe’s youngest state badly wants into the EU, but the hurdles in place are high.
Reforms to the judiciary are a threat to democracy – and that affects us all.
Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
Several post-communist member states are moving further and further away from European Union norms.
He’s been charged with fraud and is under investigation by the EU, so how did this former finance minister become the most likely candidate for prime minister?
Migration may help to pay Western pensions, but life is hard for those left behind.
The European Union is threatening to suspend the state’s voting rights if it pursues legislation to restrict its judiciary.
After years of propping up corrupt parties in the name of ‘order’, Kosovo’s international backers have a very different partner to deal with.
European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
In some places, the dismal labour conditions of young academics have spurred them to unionise. Not so in the Czech Republic, where students and intellectuals lead lives of “state-ordered poverty”.
It’s there … but it changes over time.
If the western Balkan countries can’t join the EU, their complicated ethnic politics might boil over once again.
The experience of Serbian Londoners shows how migrants should not be treated as a single group.
Britain has a number of bilateral treaties with Eastern European countries that will remain after Brexit.
In 2004 the Labour government allowed citizens of the 10 new EU states labour market access. Why did Blair make this decision?
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
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Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor in International Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of History, Clarkson University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, Social Work, Dalhousie University
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Reader in International Relations, University of Westminster
