Three scientific clubs at the University of Wrocław: the Lithuanists, the Librarians, and the Diplomats, as well as the College of Eastern Europe have organised the First Congress of Lithuanists “Integration – Dialogue – Perspectives”. In Poland, places where the Lithuanian language is taught are scattered throughout the country and the students do not know […]

Until now, France and Germany – the “motor” of European integration – do not agree on how to address the ongoing economic and financial crisis, which remains the most debated policy issue within the European Union. Clearly, increased effectiveness of EU policies on the crisis and beyond requires more convergence of visions and proposed policy […]

After ten rounds of negotiations and near failure, Serbia and Kosovo have agreed on a pact that opens up the path for Serbia's languishing EU accession. The constellation of events that led to the announcement of the pact on April 19th, including discussions with Russia, has brought this historic agreement about. Yet, while the ground has […]

The 6th Europe-Ukraine Forum will be dominated by discussions on key issues of relations between the EU and Ukraine in the context of the possibility of signing the Association Agreement and the Agreement on the Deep Free Trade Area. The issue of the agreement is even more vital, as signing the EU Association Agreement will […]

This article is a special addition to New Eastern Europe Issue 2 (VII) / 2013: Painful Past, Fragile Future. To read Dorota and Tomasz Majkowska-Szajer's article on Yugonostalgia please download the whole issue from our mobile application. The term Yugosphere emerged relatively recently, and was first used by a British journalist, Tim Judah, in 2009 […]

On April 7th 2013,  the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, signed a decree (number 197/137) pardoning six prisoners, including the former Minister of the Interior, Yuri Lutsenko and the former Minister of Environment, Georgiy Filipchuk. The decision came after the country's Ombudsman, Valeriya Lutkovska, petitioned for their release. On Saturday (April 6th) the presidential committee for […]

Yuri Lutsenko is free again. This is the first positive signal we have had from Kyiv in recent months. And yet some of Viktor Yanukovych’s critics will not sleep calmly once they read the commentaries that have been printed in the West regarding this event. “Don’t they understand anything?” they will ask, irritated. Yanukovych’s administration […]

It had all started with a joke. “Some snow yet. Hopefully, there will be less in the summer,” said a friend of mine on March 16th, looking at a snow cloud over Kyiv on a web forecast. “Well, it happens,” I thought, knowing there had been something in the media about a snow storm in […]

It had all started with a joke. “Some snow yet. Hopefully, there will be less in the summer,” said a friend of mine on March 16th, looking at a snow cloud over Kyiv on a web forecast. “Well, it happens,” I thought, knowing there had been something in the media about a snow storm in […]

This article is a special addition to New Eastern Europe Issue 2 (VII) / 2013: Painful Past, Fragile Future. To read another article related to this topic, please download the whole issue from our mobile application. For several months, Croatia has been straddling the past and the future. On the threshold of European Union, this […]

This article is a special addition to New Eastern Europe Issue 2 (VII) / 2013: Painful Past, Fragile Future. To read another article related to this topic, please download the whole issue from our mobile application. For several months, Croatia has been straddling the past and the future. On the threshold of European Union, this […]

Easter celebrations in Catholic and orthodox countries are often extremely fascinating with respect to their cultural heritage. They remain less commercial than those at Christmas, and much more mysterious; Easter is connected to death and the resurrection, two taboo concepts even in the most secularised societies. Countries which share a strong Catholic character become the […]