Indian Prime Minister’s two-day trip to Bratislava is a sign of Europe’s deeper engagement with India. V4 countries can use their legacy and facilitate decoupling from China.

The EU-Western Balkans Summit in Montenegro was probably the most consequential one since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and arguably since the launch of the revised enlargement methodology in 2020. The framing is what mattered the most.

Europe enters the week with the first real movement on enlargement in years, a budget under construction and a G7 summit at Évian that will test whether the West can still speak with one voice.

After seventeen months of deadlock, Hungary has cleared Ukraine’s path into Europe and a first meeting between the leaders now seems only days away. Our Fellows weigh what the reset could deliver and where it will be tested.

After years of political deadlock, one of Ukraine’s most sensitive disputes with an EU member state may finally be nearing resolution.

What can a concert reveal about two ways of imagining ‘Asia’? A single concert in Budapest, where a Taiwanese conductor leads a Hungarian choir through the endangered tongues of Asia, shows what a state owes the peoples who carry those languages and why CEE should recognise the stakes.

For Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the next Taiwan Strait crisis might begin not with sirens in Taipei, but with silence on a factory floor. The impact will reach supply chains long before the Chinese military.

CEE states favour Europe’s overdue pushback against China’s predatory industrial policy. Expect China’s response.

As the EU confronts the scale of its growing dependency on China, indecisiveness is still in the room. Poland and Hungary are interesting case studies for how to move forward.

Franco-Polish cooperation may emerge as one of the most consequential strategic partnerships in Europe today.

On 29 May, the new Hungarian government unlocked 16.4 billion euros in EU funds. What comes next will not only determine the country’s future, but Europe’s too.

Poland is incensed by President Zelenskyy’s decision last week to name one of its elite special forces units – credited with helping defend Kyiv in 2022 – after the ‘Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’ (UPA). Largely seen in Ukraine as a symbol of national resistance against Soviet and Nazi...