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Author: Daniel Gleichgewicht

“To be in war is to be morally injured”

An interview with David Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has spent decades reporting on war and moral injury. Interviewer: Vazha Tavberidze.

December 22, 2025 - David Wood Vazha Tavberidze

Czechia between 1989 and 2025: From Velvet hopes to right-wing populism

The recent elections in the Czech Republic appear to offer a clear contrast to the values that once enthused the population as it threw off socialism. Despite this, the current situation on the ground is not so clear cut, with a variety of issues impacting how Czechs view their position at home and abroad.

December 19, 2025 - Pavlína Janebová

Krupp fuels far-right narratives in Germany

In the north-eastern German city of Greifswald, the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg’s minimal acknowledgment of its patron's crimes against humanity, committed during the Second World War, indirectly feeds into the political climate that facilitates the meteoric rise of the far-right AfD party. This calculated institutional forgetfulness nurtures extremist revisionism, highlighting the crucial intersection of memory politics and momentous political shifts in contemporary Germany.

December 18, 2025 - Tomasz Kamusella

Betraying Kolevi: Bulgaria’s pseudo-mechanism for investigating a sitting General Prosecutor

The Kolevi judgment of 2009 continues to impact Bulgaria’s notoriously troubled justice system. While European bodies have maintained oversight concerning the consequences of this case, this involvement remains a story of missed opportunities.

December 16, 2025 - Radosveta Vassileva

Trump’s fake peace plan for Ukraine

US President Donald Trump’s current plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine focuses on short-term gain over any long-term solutions. While potential business deals are prioritized, issues regarding human rights remain overlooked in many key areas.

December 15, 2025 - David J. Simon

Slovenia’s security paradox: from UN leadership to domestic regression

Slovenia's shift on internal security risks turning a diplomatic triumph into a European vulnerability.

December 12, 2025 - Mensur Haliti

Europe must learn from Ukraine: how combat experience shapes Europe’s new security

The growing use of drones on the battlefield presents an area in which Ukraine and Europe may cooperate in a form of symbiosis. While Kyiv now has years of direct experience in this field, allied countries across the continent are looking to update their tactics. Working closer together proves the natural next step in these circumstances.

December 11, 2025 - Serhii Kuzan

Normalizing pro-Russia narratives straight from the Kremlin playbook: an autopsy of an average Italian social media feed

Russian disinformation is highly visible in Italian social media. The flat, open, and porous nature of the platforms offers fertile ground for such influence to spread and normalize.

December 10, 2025 - Stefano Braghiroli

Security at a crossroads. How US and Russia push for a new European order through “peace” in Ukraine

For the first time in more than 25 years, a NATO ministerial meeting has taken place without the US Secretary of State attending. Washington’s decision was a clear diplomatic message – one the Alliance would rather not spell out.

December 9, 2025 - Serhiy Sydorenko

One year of Georgia’s unbreakable resistance, as told by its prisoners of conscience

Georgian citizens continue to fight for their freedoms in a political environment that is becoming increasingly authoritarian under the ruling Georgian Dream party. This is particularly true for the country’s prisoners of conscience, who remain resolute in their fight for a free and democratic Georgia.

December 5, 2025 - Anastasia Mgaloblishvili Anri Gorgiladze

Ukraine’s energy defence: how cogeneration and decentralized solutions are shaping a new model of resilience

As Russia turns Ukraine’s energy system into a target of daily strikes, the country is building a new model of resilience — based on decentralized generation and mobile cogeneration solutions. These technologies, capable of operating autonomously even during a complete blackout, are already forming “energy islands” for hospitals, water utilities, and district heating systems. In 2025, cogeneration has become one of the key tools of energy defence: from the rapid restoration of critical infrastructure to the creation of microgrids that withstand attacks where traditional generation can no longer cope.

December 4, 2025 - Yuliia Valova

Politicians take aim at LRT – Lithuania’s public service broadcaster

Lithuania’s civil society, as well as journalist organisations and the Council of Europe, are raising alarm over what they say are worrying signs of politicians aiming to take control of the Lithuanian public broadcaster, LRT. First proposed by the Nemunas Dawn party, the move is now gathering support in the rest of the ruling coalition.

December 3, 2025 - Benas Gerdžiūnas

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