11 December 2025, 9:30 AM Michelangelo Hall, Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia 89B Vitosha Blvd., Sofia, Bulgaria

This working paper examines illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions, shedding light on their scale, drivers, and consequences. Covering ten countries – Albania, Mon...

Europe is navigating increasingly intense geopolitical pressures, exemplified by Russia's aggression against Ukraine and escalating hybrid threats targeting democratic institutions and economic vulner...

Today’s geopolitical environment is at its most turbulent point since the end of the Cold War. Conventional warfare has returned to the European continent, and the Russian State continues to conduct i...

11 November 2025 09:00 AM Royal Ballroom, Sofia Balkan Palace Hotel 5 Sv. Nedelya sq., Sofia, Bulgaria

This paper examines how illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions have surged in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using trade and econometric analysis, it es...

11 November 2025 09:00 AM Royal Ballroom, Sofia Balkan Palace Hotel 5 Sv. Nedelya sq., Sofia, Bulgaria

On 22 October 2025, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on the Russian company...

11 November 2025 09:00 AM Royal Ballroom, Sofia Balkan Palace Hotel 5 Sv. Nedelya sq., Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s energy transition policy is at a crossroads. Despite its ambitious renewable energy targets, the country remains locked in a state-dominated, fossil-fuel-dependent model, where the delayed ...

30 October 2025 09:00 AM Da Vinci Hall, Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia 89B Vitosha Blvd., Sofia, Bulgaria

The Energy and Climate Security Risk Index is a strategic policy assessment tool for evaluating the interconnected energy system vulnerabilities of geopolitics, affordability, reliability and sustaina...

The article first appeared in Just Security.Cover photo: CanvaU.S. President Donald Trump declared that Europe must stop buying Russian...

This quarter began with a training for newcomers in Warsaw and the third Research Committee meeting in Brussels, followed by advanced trainings on anti-system extremism and artificial intelligence in ...

Hungary and Slovakia's continued reliance on Russian energy imports, particularly crude oil and gas, has undermined EU sanctions and strengthened Russia's economic and military power. Despite EU exemp...

Europe can survive without Russian oil. The pushback against an EU-wide oil ban is not rooted in reality but in vested political and economic interests. There is sufficient alternative supply to keep ...

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The European Union has identified Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) as a primary security threat, defining it as the strategic use of disinformation to exploit social divisions ...

The report exposes how Russia has entrenched itself in Cuba and Nicaragua and leveraged them as gateways to project influence across the region. Through economic entanglements, media disinformation, a...

Conflict Entrepreneurs. The once great democratic hope that the commercial internet promised to be has left early evangelists unrecognising what they...