Catégorie : Articles
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Romania’s Shock Vote: From Safe Pro‑European Course to a Far‑Right Tide
By Claudia Bădulescu, Free University of Brussels, Institute of European Studies. Shortly after one o’clock on the morning of May 5, 2025, the Central Electoral Bureau in Bucharest released near‑final figures from the first round of Romania’s presidential election. They read like the script of an improbable political thriller. George Simion, the thirty‑eight‑year‑old leader of the…
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Polish Presidential Elections: How Mainstreaming of the (Far) Right Continues.
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By Wojciech Albert Łobodziński, journalist. This article was first published in Cross-border Talks on the 24th of April 2024. Find the original article here : Polish Presidential Elections: How Mainstreaming of the (Far) Right Continues [Analysis] – Cross-border Talks. Less than a month before the first round of presidential elections in Poland, Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate…
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The Borders of the European Union as Lines of Defence: The Strategic Relevance of the “Eastern Shield” in the Context of the War in Ukraine.
By Kinga Torbicka, University of Warsaw. Introduction The National Deterrence and Defence Project “Eastern Shield” (2024–2028) is a comprehensive initiative aimed at strengthening Poland’s defensive capabilities along its eastern border. The programme was developed in response to the deteriorating security environment in the region, particularly following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which highlighted the…
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RE: Strategy Proposals to react to #TariffEscalation – To: Governments of the Western Balkans
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For the Western Balkan countries, the US market per se is not very relevant, only indirectly via the economies they sell to. They have little to offer for any kind of negotiation, at least not officially, except for Zero tariffs on US goods. The recommendation is to focus on new markets, regional and EU first,…
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2025 Presidential elections in Poland.
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By Michał Kuryłowicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland. There are five weeks left until the first round of Poland’s presidential elections, but the election campaign is only now beginning in earnest. Few remember already the first – autumn – stage of the battle for the presidential palace, that is, the selection of candidates of the two largest…