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Unfriending Europe: How Georgian Dream Turned its Rhetoric against the EU

EU allocates first €10 million for special tribunal on Russiaʼs crimes against Ukraine

Serbian police used EU funds to purchase technology from a sanctioned russian company

OPINION: Why Putin Isn’t Interested in Ending the War

Chinese Influence in the Eastern Trio and the Western Balkans: Strategic Fragmentation in the EU’s Enlargement Countries

Putin is weaponizing winter as Russia tries to freeze Ukraine into submission

EU Plans New Russia Sanctions As Loopholes Persist

Russia Targets NATO Frontline States – Analysis

Leak exposes Kremlin-funded “legal aid” network as new front in Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine

Scraping the barrel: The Kremlin is facing a massive budget deficit due to the low cost of Russian crude oil

Moldova’s quiet push for Transnistria’s reintegration: a new chapter unfolds

Putin Gets a Drenching in High Seas Drama

EIB Group provides EU-backed guarantees to expand finance for war-affected businesses in Ukraine

China ousts top generals amid deepening power shake-up

Going to cede

Why Russia has kept quiet over Maduro's ouster in Venezuela

“Imposing a love of war” Russia is turning Crimea into a military bridgehead: problems with mobilization, propaganda and fuel

Infrastructure of Russian Influence in the Western Balkans

Russia lost 19 generals during the war in Ukraine

Armenia to Improve Access to Affordable Housing for Refugees and Catalyze Private Investments to Mortgage Market with World Bank Support

Russia and China’s Shadow War in Europe

Action plan for 90 billion euros: how the EU is preparing assistance to Ukraine and what it will demand from Kiev

EU’s enlargement to the Western Balkans no longer just about membership: The Case for Operational Integration

New German military plan views foreign sabotage as preparation for war

The Kremlin’s new deadline is April 1: is the Russian Federation capable of capturing the Donetsk region in 2026?

War Spending Accelerating Russian Infrastructure Collapse – Analysis

Azerbaijan and Russian experience a fresh bout of rancor over 2024 air disaster

A grave miscalculation

Putin’s attempt to re-enact World War II in Ukraine has gone horribly wrong

(InCLUDE) – Include the Western Balkans in the EU as Full Members

China's Arctic Strategy and Hybrid Warfare: Targeting Governance and Strategic Responses

Behind the contact line How would the 20-point peace plan impact the millions of Ukrainians living under Russian occupation?

NATO warns Russian intelligence adapting spy tactics in Europe to evade post-war security measures

When did Russia really begin its aggression against Ukraine?

Hypersonic Weapons Escalate War Risks in Ukraine 2026

Cyprus blames Russia for disinformation campaign

Russian Oil Tracker – December 2025: Russian oil export revenues reached the lowest level since the start of the full-scale invasion, India’s imports decreased by 40%

Expanding Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia (Eastern Partnership Programme)

EBRD and EU support Ukraine’s energy security with €75 million for hydropower

China intensifies Cyber-Attacks on Taiwan as Energy Sector Sees Tenfold Spike

How Russia is turning housing policy into a tool for forcing cooperation in the occupied territories

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Russia’s Africa footprint is deeper than imagined

An alliance that comes at a high cost: The political and economic price of Serbia’s closeness to Russia

Torture and blackmail with children: Ukrainian women on Russian captivity

EU-Western Balkans summit 2025

Russia’s hybrid-warfare attacks in Europe dropped this year, but could they pick up in 2026?

Coalition of the Willing sign off on letter of intent to send peacekeeping force to Ukraine

EBRD provides US$ 20 million to AccessBank for loans to young entrepreneurs in Azerbaijan

SIPRI: China’s Corruption Purge Disrupts Weapons Programs

Murders, torture, car accidents. How the “war against Ukraine instead of prison” scheme works in Russia

The Russian Economy Under Wartime Pressures – Analysis

Russia shows nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system deployed in Belarus

ANALYSIS: Ukraine Punches Back Against Russia, No Letup to Oil Refinery Strikes

Russia’s manufacturing sector in continued decline: Activity falls for the seventh consecutive month

Rich and voiceless: How Putin has kept Russia's billionaires on side in the war

The Risk Of War Is Once Again Real: Russia Is Forcing Europe To Face The Truth

IFC Invests in Ukraine’s Insurance Sector to Expand Coverage and Strengthen Business Resilience

China: An Ally Waiting for Russia’s Defeat?

A one-way ticket for Russia. A war of attrition did not lead to the fall of Ukraine.

Putin’s expressionless face

Russia completes 135,000 autumn conscription as Putin sets 261,000 target for 2026

How the Kremlin Responds to Armenia’s Rapprochement with the West – Five Propaganda Narratives

Trostianets: the specific crimes that demand names and answers

Émigrés in Putin’s Crosshairs

The next ‘big bang’: How the EU can fast-track enlargement amid geopolitical tensions

War or Peace: Ukraine

Trump’s peace plan may force Kyiv into a painful compromise, trading security guarantees for concessions in a peace that could prove fragile.

EBRD lends further €150 million for road upgrades in Moldova

With research and icebreakers, China aims to expand geopolitical influence in the Arctic

Architects of Chaos Theory How pro-Kremlin pundits use geopolitical turmoil to explain away Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation

Poland preparing €2bn anti-drone fortifications along its eastern border amid Russian threat

Seven Things To Know About The EU’s €90bn Loan To Ukraine – Analysis

Controlled questions, crafted lies: Inside Putin’s year-end messaging machine

Peace on a referendum: what is behind Zelensky's initiative and why experts have conflicting opinions

On borrowed time

How Transnistria is coping without the transit of Russian gas via Ukraine

Losses mount for Russia as 400,000 troops killed or wounded in a year

Western Balkan Cities Join New EU Cities Mission Twinning Learning Programme: Sarajevo, Kumanovo, Elbasan

The rot eating at China’s war machine

"Foreign agents", the Internet, electric cars: what is prohibited and restricted in Crimea in 2025

Raiding in Russia’s Wartime Economy

Peacekeeping forces for Ukraine: what could they look like

Russian general killed in suspected Ukrainian car bomb attack

Swedish navy encountering Russian submarines ‘almost weekly’ – and more could be on the way

EU Agrees To $106 Billion Loan For Ukraine After Shelving Russian Asset Proposal

EIB provides over €74 million to support essential public services across Ukraine

A New Axis of Disinformation: What Europe Must Do Now

Russian Oil Tracker – November 2025: Ukrainian drone strikes cut oil exports from Tuapse threefold

No progress from the Miami round of Ukraine peace talks

When Borders Tighten, Propaganda Inflates: The Kremlin’s Border Disinfo Playbook

OPINION: Ukraine After the War: Scenarios, Risks, and Europe

Accelerate the accessions: Why faster is better in EU enlargement policy

Why Russia is in its weakest position since 2022

Is the end of Serbia’s dependence on Russian gas approaching?

Putin Decree Forces Foreigners Seeking Russian Residency To Sign Army Contracts

EBRD partners with Tegeta Motors to transform Georgia’s automotive sector

Russia's Arctic gambit with North Korea and China

In the context of war. How demining is going on in Ukraine

EU enlargement in the Western Balkans: All together now?

Russia's Undeclared War on the Northern Front

After Berlin. What to expect from the negotiations?

Prospects for a peace agreement

Russian hybrid threats: Council sanctions twelve individuals and two entities over information manipulation and cyber attacks

The Serb militants fighting for Putin – and preparing for a new Balkan war