Catégorie : Articles
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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…
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Dark clouds at the start of the Romanian presidential campaign.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 4th of April 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Nori negri la startul campaniei – Comunitatea Liberala. We have five candidates for Cotroceni who could, in principle, exceed 10%. In alphabetical order, they are…
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Bulgaria: Does it have a prosecutor’s office?
By Antony Todorov, New Bulgarian University. The head of the European Prosecutor’s Office, Laura Kövesi, has temporarily suspended Bulgarian representative Teodora Georgieva and even launched an investigation against her. This unusual move in such an EU institution has become the centre of a scandal in Bulgaria, involving a former investigator, a former prosecutor general, a…