Should the European Union be more concerned about the perception of Russia in the Central and Eastern European region or rather focus on the developing relationship between Russia and the West?
How is Russia trying to improve its image in Central and Eastern Europe and the western Balkans? Edward Lucas, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, says that Moscow is most interested in depicting the West as a failure.
Should the EU be worried, and is there anything it can do to limit the spread of Russian narratives? In the first of a series of conversations on the image of Russia, Mark Galeotti, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, discusses Russia’s influence in Europe.
Sebastian Schäffer, the managing director of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and associate fellow at GLOBSEC Policy Institute, touches upon the new level of hostility between Ukraine and Russia after the Kremlin deployed troops on the border.
GLOBSEC hosts Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the main opposition candidate in the 2020 Belarus presidential election, in this fireside chat.
National legislations across the European Union — with the exception of states that have implemented their own digital laws, such as Germany and France — are very difficult to enforce when it comes to online. This is because, in the absence of overarching legislation that...
Central Eastern Europe (CEE) has been hit by the novel coronavirus — which causes a disease called COVID-19 — at a time when upgrades to its industry are overdue, the cost of labor has gone up, the tailwinds from EU funding are about to wane, and the region is in desperate...
