Eastern Europe

Despite the government’s anti-immigration rhetoric, many Polish businesses rely on workers from other parts of Eastern Europe.

President Andrzej Duda is locked in a surprisingly close race with Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. Their rivalry is the latest battle between the country’s poorer and more religious rural regions and its wealthier, socially liberal cities.

While some Central and Eastern European governments have taken pro-Beijing positions, their considerations are far more domestic than international.

Liberals have changed the region for the better—but don’t perceive its sense of loss.

North Macedonia just became NATO’s newest and weakest member. That makes it a ripe target for interference.

Beijing is using the coronavirus pandemic to expand its influence into the EU’s backyard.

The coronavirus pandemic might not disrupt politics in wealthy Western democracies, but it is likely to unleash political instability—and even regime change—in developing countries already suffering from an economic crisis.

Britain has been exceptionally slow to respond to the pandemic. Trump's decision to omit the U.K. and Ireland from his European travel ban won't help halt the spread of the virus.

Slovakia’s progressive president was supposed to spur a regional revival of liberalism—now her party has even failed to qualify for parliament. What went wrong?

Changing Ukraine is much harder than its president thought. Here is how Zelensky should reboot his presidency and secure his place in history.

The entire Russian government has resigned as Putin charts his country’s political future—one that will certainly still include a leading role for him.

Emmanuel Macron thinks the Atlantic alliance is brain-dead, but its problems have deeper roots than the recent U.S.-Turkish spat over Syria.

City-level opposition could be the key to defeating populism in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and beyond.

As political ties flourish, the country is taking tenuous steps to confront its Holocaust history. But it hasn’t gone far enough.

Turkey bombs Syrian Kurds, Poland goes to the polls, and the NBA bows to Chinese pressure.

After upcoming elections in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, healing Europe’s east-west divide will be more urgent than ever.

The PiS government is rooting out, relocating, and demoting political critics in the name of judicial reform.

In the Balkan wars, women were targets. In postwar governments, they’ve been pushed out of sight.

A comedian-turned-president, a rockstar-turned-party leader, and a sea of new faces in the parliament: Meet the new political reality in Ukraine.

The illiberal leaders of Hungary and Poland falsely claim Frans Timmermans would divide Europe. What they really fear is his commitment to the rule of law.