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Mosaic old building in Chisinau

Moldova’s never-ending political crisis

Political turmoil in Eastern European countries does not calm down at the moment. While ...

photo of seats in parliament - most likely to be filled by a third of women in politics

Women in parliament: The everlasting ‘one-third’

Women make up half of Europe’s population, yet less than half of Europe’s parliamentarians ...

COVID-19 in Europe: Opportunity turned threat for the environment?

What is the environmental outlook following COVID-19? E&M’s former editor Isabell Wutz argues that progress ...

Times like these - when democracy trumps all - Europe and Me

Times like these: When democracy Trumps all

E&M ‘s Lisa O’ Leary reflects on Trumps time in Presidency, and looks forward ...

Hypocrisy at its best: Fidesz and the orgy of the year

In the midst of everything that happened last year, we had almost forgotten the ...

Reflections on the white gaze

E&M author Nichole Wanjirũ takes us along to a World Press Photo exhibition and ...

Time to choose? The dilemma of in-betweenness for Eastern Partnership countries

2020 has been a disruptive year for the EU’s Eastern neighbours Belarus, Azerbaijan and ...

The Nagorno-Karabakh War: Imperialism and ethnic violence in the South Caucasus

There exist several so-called ‘frozen conflicts’ in Eastern Europe which developed out of territorial ...