Hungary’s government is hopeful its presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2024 will be an opportunity to end its isolation within the EU, and has for the first time established a Ministry of EU Affairs to help manage the process. The countdown has begun. …

Even as the risk of provocation rises, locals on Poland’s border with Belarus are trying to remain calm. What worries them more than the proximity of Wagner mercenaries is an overreaction by a state that’s had its vulnerability to hybrid threats exposed. Two years into the migration crisis and tensions …

Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan are leading conduits for the evading of Western sanctions against Russia. Armenia’s current assistance to Russia builds on its three-decade experience in being an intermediary assisting Iran to evade Western sanctions. Armenia’s military, political and trade relationship with Iran has existed since the early 1990s …