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Analyses |
| Marek Matusiak
The biggest terrorist attack in the history of the Turkish Republic took place on 11 May in Reyhanlı, in Hatay province, close to the border with Syria. The attacks have put Erdoğan’s government in a difficult position, both domestically…
Analyses |
On 9 May the Latvian parliament adopted amendments to the citizenship law following two years of work. The amendments concern above all the possibility of dual citizenship. The amended law enters into force in October 2013 and lays out…
Analyses |
| Jakub Groszkowski
On 9 May the centre-left Alenka Bratusek government, which has been in power for two months, presented a reform plan for 2013-2014 that is intended to help lift Slovenia out of the banking and economic crisis. The state-dominated Slovenian…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 12 May early parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria. They were called as a result of the biggest public protests against the low standard of living and the entire political class since the mid-1990s. These elections have not…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
On 3 May, Moldova’s parliament passed a number of laws concerning the operation of the systems of justice and voting; the Communists and the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (LDPM) voted in favour of them. The most important decisions…
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
On 30 April, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgement on the case of Yulia Tymoshenko v. Ukraine, stating that her detention pending her trial for abuse of power when concluding a gas contract with Gazprom in 2009 was unlawful…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk
On 26 April a government draft bill was put forward in the Ukrainian parliament providing for the lifting of the ban on privatising the state-owned company Naftogaz. The main objective of the proposed changes is to remove the existing…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
The Liberal party, the FDP (a partner of the CDU/CSU in the coalition government led by Angela Merkel), ended its congress in Nuremberg on 5 May. The congress settled the party’s manifesto to be presented ahead of the election to the…
Point of View |
| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga
Despite the conflicts and frictions in their bilateral relations, Russia has for years regularly invested in Belarus. Moscow’s support has become an important factor allowing the Belarusian economic model to continue, which in turn helps…
Although the Republic of Belarus is constitutionally designated as a neutral country1, it is in fact closely connected with Russia’s own security and defence architecture. Within the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the armed forces are…