On 22 May, the first-ever congress of Sudeten Germans is set to begin in the Czech city of Brno.

After 12 April 2026, when Viktor Orbán’s party suffered a crushing election defeat, relations between Ukraine and Hungary were given a chance, though not a guarantee, for a full reset.

For many years, the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland served as an effective mechanism for checking government power.

At the end of last week, Wes Streeting stepped down as the UK’s health secretary, saying he had lost confidence in Prime Minister and fellow Labour Party member Keir Starmer.

Protecting people from the harms of tobacco and nicotine is one of the European Union’s public health priorities.

On 11 May, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, announced his resignation.

On 2 April, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers a revised draft of the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2026–2030.

Ukraine wants to open the first cluster in its EU accession talks as early as 26 May, and the other five shortly afterwards.

Methane policy is no longer just a narrow climate issue. For Europe, it is increasingly becoming part of a broader strategy to strengthen energy security, reliability and transparency in energy supplies.

The world is entering a new era of trade wars, where the principles of free trade no longer carry the same weight they did even a decade ago.

Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa has resigned.

In the recent local elections in England, Scotland and Wales, the Labour Party of current Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered a painful defeat.

Iron and steel products are Ukraine’s second most valuable export category after agricultural goods. Since the start of the full-scale war, the European Union has become the key destination for Ukrainian metal exports.

Romania is entering an even more turbulent period and is becoming a less predictable partner for Ukraine.

For years, the European Union treated enlargement as a slow, technocratic and largely predictable process. Candidate countries adapted to EU rules step by step, while the Union itself remained geopolitically stable.

There are concerns in Ukraine that stricter EU requirements for the agricultural sector will increase costs, complicate production and potentially lead to the loss of some traditional markets outside the European Union.

Parliamentary elections are set to be held in Armenia on 7 June.

A conflict within Poland’s largest opposition party, "Law and Justice" (PiS), had been brewing for a long time.

At a recent academic conference in Zagreb, Ivan Pepić, an associate professor at the Croatian State "Franjo Tuđman" Institute of Defence and Security, presented a map of Bosnia and Herzegovina showing three self-governing regions (entities) within the country.

The far-right and pro-Russian Slovak politician Andrej Danko recently criticised Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico for declaring support for Ukraine’s accession to the EU.