Elisabeth Braw published her new book, The Undersea War. Visegrad Insight spoke with her about Russian grey-zone activities in Europe.

This text is a transcribed version of Poland’s Vision of Europe’s Future keynote speech delivered by the author during the core programme of the Forum. For most of the past 30 years, Poland’s vision o...

On 9 September 2026 Poland signed a four-billion-dollar financing deal with the United States, bringing total US support to nearly 20 billion dollars. The money was specifically earmarked to buy US mi...

In the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European politicians are giving up on the academic debates on further integration and the functioning of the EU. They are concentrating in...

Latvia delivered a reassuring result on 3 October. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’s United List took about 35 per cent of the vote, more than 20 percentage points ahead of Ainārs Šlesers – aka ‘Latvia...

Latvians go to the polls on Saturday to elect the 15th Saeima. Fourteen lists are competing for 100 seats, fewer than the 19 that ran in 2022. The United List (Apvienotais saraksts) alliance led by th...

János Széky, a Hungarian journalist and translator, described Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s recent Ukraine policy as being ‘determined by the same version of ethno-nationalism that prevailed in the ho...

Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland whose importance runs well beyond its size. In the streets around its main railway station, PESA builds the trains, trams and locomotives that now run across Cen...

In Czechia – still running one of the smallest headline deficits in the EU – the budget bill lands with cuts to public media, one of the region’s key pillars of democratic resilience, and is sent into...

Ahead of Trump-Xi meeting, Visegrad Insight spoke with Theresa Fallon, Director of CREAS, about Europe's dependency on China.

Political momentum in Brussels is at a historic high, but it is unclear how exactly the bloc intends to rebalance relations with China.

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, and a columnist for Foreign Policy and Politico Europe. We met at the Europe Future Forum in Warsaw and d...

Mureșan’s candidacy was announced on 17 September, and Dan said the nomination came from a long consultation with the party leaders. Supported by the PNL, the Save Romania Union and the Democratic All...

During the core programme of the Europe Future Forum 2026, Poland's foreign minister delivered a keynote address, 'Poland, Europe. The Next Defining Moments'.

Europe likes to discuss its future in the conditional tense. This week leaves little room for that as the future is happening already today. On Sunday, a delegation of European leaders who were coming...

Ahead of the annual State of the EU address, we asked experts and Fellows what the EU security grand strategy should contain.

Western Balkans' ageing demographics are a constraint on economic growth, public finance and EU convergence. Enlargement should deal with it.

For nine months a retired Polish anti-corruption officer billed the head of a crypto exchange 15,000 euros a month. Part of what he sold was Hungary. He told his client that Orbán’s people would buy t...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) taking 43.8 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September adds fuel to another debate shaping this week – over the line-up of important visits across CEE. While the biggest at...

Lack of budget allocation to the Constitutional Tribunal is a strategic gambit by Donald Tusk ahead of the vote on Maciej Berek.

Lack of budget allocation to the Constitutional Tribunal is a strategic gambit by Donald Tusk ahead of the vote on Maciej Berek.

Péter Magyar's first 100 days in office brought a wave of change. But how long can the honeymoon last? Wojciech Przybylski & Péter Krekó

This time the CEE countries are in the spotlight, and the difference between policy executives versus policy advisors is apparent. Mario Draghi’s so-called Rhine Group to revive Europe’s competitivene...

Who sets the direction of Europe? Is it the European Commission and Parliament, or do national governments play a more important role? This was the opening question raised by Wojciech Przybylski to th...

Petrol cost about 1.48 euros per litre and diesel 1.69 euros thanks to VAT reduction on fuels in CPN. But how sustainable is the strategy?

Kyiv Coalition of the Willing meeting on 24 August shows that Ukraine holds a line that would otherwise run through Warsaw or Vilnius.

Integrating AI into Poland's digital government system can make public services less burdensome. But it can also make mistakes harder to see.

Lithuania's draft proposal to raise fines for buyers of sex work expands the legal grey zone of workers' rights.

The clearest signal is Maciej Berek’s departure from the government – Donald Tusk is delegating his key legislative operator and preparing to place him in the Constitutional Tribunal. The timing matte...

Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini's overtures with Chinese and UAE companies benefit no one but themselves.

As Poland marked the first anniversary of Karol Nawrocki’s inauguration, he is preparing for the windfall to enjoy after the 2027 parliamentary elections. The right divided into various formations wou...

Foreign policy wonks like their crises marbled with gravitas – ballistic missiles, sanction regimes, the ‘rules-based order’. Few clear their throat at a think-tank panel to discuss the price of eggs....

Ten years ago, last month, Britain voted to exit the EU. The legacy of Brexit should concern CEE countries, too.

While Poland’s former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has left Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice party together with around 30 MPs, figures across the fractured right have publicly regretted the ...

The penny drops The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) summits have followed a pattern since the format’s inception in 2015. Presidents from member and associated states assemble, a communiqué is agreed in a...

Prime Minister's dismissal of Tamás Sulyok and Péter Polt is a perilous but necessary adventure for the rule of law in Hungary.

Bulgaria's electricity grid is ready for the energy transition. Its institutions are not. Can civil society take the lead?

How to build an effective system of cooperation between authorities and citizens in reporting suspicious activities? The EU governments should: Raise awareness of the nature and scope of grey-zone act...

The EU's failure to finalise its 21st sanctions package due to the lack of political will and abundance of rhetoric strengthens Russia.