The mood in Poland was subdued to mark the resounding victory a year ago of the Donald Tusk-led coalition over Poland’s ruling right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party.

The first objective in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Victory Plan for Ukraine is an official invitation to join NATO. Ukraine aims to receive it within the next few months, before the end of Joe Biden's presidency, while actual accession to the Alliance would happen after the war.

On 27 October, Bulgaria held snap elections, the seventh attempt in the last three years to elect a parliament. So far, none of these attempts have resulted in a stable, preferably pro-European coalition.

The government is set to change soon in Lithuania, a close ally of Ukraine. The ruling Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats set to move into opposition.

The Georgian Central Election Commission announced a solid victory for the ruling Georgian Dream party, though it fell short of a constitutional majority.

It became known this week that Slovakia's Ministry of the Interior has reached a settlement with former Czech Prime Minister and pro-Russian politician Andrej Babiš.

Austria is going through an unusual situation. The pro-Russian far-right party that won the parliamentary elections did not receive the mandate to form the government.

The employment rate of Ukrainian refugees in Germany has nearly doubled, rising from 16% in the summer of 2022 to 30% by last spring.

On 20 October, a historic vote took place in Moldova. We have have published an article about the ambiguity and threats posed by the results, as well as a report on the regions forming the core of Kremlin support in Moldova.

We may know the name of the next President of the United States in just two weeks.

On Monday, the European affairs ministers of 13 European Union members stated that Georgia will not be able to join the EU unless the government changes its course.

Donald Trump views Ukraine as something bad and mostly harmful to him personally.

The results of the vote on 20 October in Moldova were shockingly different from all predictions. No one expected this outcome.

On 15 October 2023, Poland elected a new parliament. These elections surprised many, ending the eight years of near-total rule of the Law and Justice (PiS) party.

"Ukraine and the United States will negotiate peace with Russia. I fear that Ukraine will end up a victim, just as we did with the Munich Agreement. That's what I think," Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico declared at a meeting of the Slovak Parliament's European Affairs Committee.