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The EU and Serbia finalised a controversial lithium mining agreement essential for electric vehicle batteries. Amidst Serbia’s alignment with Russia...
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NATO’s 2024 summit is over; as always, it has brought forward multiple topics. Especially given the current turbulent geopolitical and...
Complex Challenges & Resilience Non-Military Security
The crises of recent years – be it the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, or the climate crisis and...
Global Agenda Military Affairs
At the end of April this year, the first-ever NATO Space Symposium on “Deterrence, Defence, and Resilience in and through...
Geopolitics Non-Military Security
In early April 2024, Georgian Dream, the ruling party in Georgia, pushed through a controversial law on “foreign agents” in...
Global Agenda Non-Military Security
Slovak voter turnout in the past (four) Euro-elections has always been the lowest among all member states. Current polls predict...
Geopolitics Global Agenda
The visit of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his delegation to Azerbaijan on 6-7 May 2024 represented a new impetus...
As Kosovo embarks on its 16th year of independence, it faces a critical juncture characterised by a challenging journey filled...
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Around these days we are finishing our six-month programme Security Academy 2023/2024 and thanks to the Representation of the European...
Geopolitics Strategic Thinking
A European always chairs the top civilian post in NATO. The top military post is always held by an American....
The most recent February edition of the CEDMO Trends survey, published on a monthly basis by the Central European Digital...
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has served as a stark reminder to Europe that security cannot be taken for granted. More...
Israel has accused the main UN agency in Gaza of involvement in the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023,...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024, the Turkish Parliament approved Sweden’s candidacy for NATO membership. Thus, after long months of waiting,...
Current trends in Arctic ice melt carry profound implications not only for the planet’s climate but also for the stability...
With the June 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections approaching, several political figures and manipulative actors in the Czech Republic, Poland,...
The war in Ukraine has placed China in a challenging position in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland regarding its...
After the onset of Russian aggression in Ukraine, the European Union (EU) promptly chose to support Ukraine, not solely through...
The European Union (EU) conducted its first live military exercise in October. Spearheaded by the Spanish amphibious assault ship Juan...
The candidate countries under the enlargement policy have anticipated the European Commission’s assessment of their progress toward joining the European...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
As Ukraine braces itself for another winter amidst a conflict that has lasted nearly two years, the war’s tactics must...
The long-standing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh has come to an end, and it appears that the European Union has not been...
In recent years, China´s dramatic rise in cyber powers has resulted in a surge in hacking activities targeting its adversaries, with...
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has contributed to Ukraine and Moldova gaining candidate status in June 2023, giving a new impetus...
Details regarding a potential Saudi-Israeli reconciliation brokered by the United States have begun to surface. The triangular bargain between Saudi...
Military Affairs Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
Numerous Chinese hacking campaigns aimed at member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have been unveiled in recent...
Slovakia, France and Belgium have announced the construction of new nuclear units or extending the operation of their nuclear power...
The leaders of the European Union and Tunisia signed an agreement aimed at combating illegal migration and strengthening their economic...
On July 14, the Republican-led House of Representatives approved the defense bill authorizing the largest military budget in US history,...
The European Union (EU) institutions have announced the allocation of additional funding to their defence funds – the European Defence...
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On 11-12 July 2023, NATO’s Heads of State and Government will meet in Vilnius Lithuania, at the NATO Summit, to...
Executive Summary There is currently an intense debate about scenarios for ending, or at least freezing, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine....
Although disinformation is hardly a new phenomenon, the internet has enabled the ultimate battle for hearts and minds, and social...
NATO is in negotiations with Japan to open a liaison office no later than 2024 in Tokyo. At the same...
The group of nine Member States of the European Union (EU) has unveiled its latest initiative to streamline EU foreign...
Tunisia, the North African country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring, faces severe political and economic problems. Under...
Footage of the dramatic arrest of Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, has sparked nationwide protests in the...
For weeks, many people following the conflict in Ukraine have been waiting for a counteroffensive that would shift the initiative...
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The Ostend Declaration reinforces the ambitions of European countries, which have committed to massive wind power generation targets, with an...
Download the Long read via 2023 Turkish Elections. Don't forget to watch quite an interesting debate on this hot topic...
On his way back from an official State visit to China, French President Macron urged the EU to reduce dependency...
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Szijjártó revisited Moscow, where on April 11, he signed a new contract on energy supplies,...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti met in Ohrid, Macedonia, on Saturday, 18 March, to negotiate...
Red lines and nukes Whenever the Ukrainian armed forces achieved something vis-à-vis their Russian foe, and occasionally even without immediate...
Military Affairs Technology and Innovations
The recent detection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of uranium enrichment to nearly 84 per cent at an...
Executive Summary The already heated discussion among policymakers and policy shapers in the West on how the Russian-Ukrainian war could...
Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
Download the Long read via link: The Importance of (Counter)Intelligence: Is the EU Ready to Play the Big Game? –...
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Executive Summary The geopolitical salience of the Russia–Ukraine War and the remoteness of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union or...
The relationship between Serbia and Kosovo has been strained since February 2008 when Kosovo unilaterally declared independence. Throughout the years...
Military Affairs Non-Military Security
The NATO Multinational Battlegroup (NATO MN BG) has been present in Slovakia since April 2022 in response to the unprecedented...
Adapt Insitute, in cooperation with the European Values Center for Security Policy and Gerulata Technologies, prepared a research study for...
At the beginning of December, the situation between the European Union and Hungary escalated. After Brussels recommended freezing €7,5 billion...
The US Air Force (USAF) and Northrop Grumman unveiled the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber on December 2 at...
On November 15, 2022, fragments of a (presumably two) missiles hit the territory of Poland. They struck the abandoned buildings...
We would like to present to you the newest research study for the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. This...
Russia’s blatant and excessive use of force to achieve its foreign policy goals marked the crossing of the Rubicon. Russia’s...
Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, and Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, reached an agreement on mutual recognition of territorial...
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Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were damaged by three explosions on Monday, September 26. Nord Stream...
In her State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen paid close attention to energy issues...
It took only twenty-four hours for Iraqi cleric Muqtada Sadr, the winner of Iraq’s last parliamentary elections, to show his...
The text discusses the most significant impacts of the NATO 2022 Madrid Summit from the perspective of expectations, ambitions and...
Tensions escalated between Serbia and Kosovo on Sunday, 31 July. Serbian demonstrators blocked roads and shot at Kosovo police officers....
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Kazakhstan’s President Tokayev said in early July that the Central Asian country, rich in oil and gas, was keen to...
Israeli researchers have revealed how some features of the popular Strava app designed to measure athletic activity via GPS allowed...
The Bulgarian government of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov collapsed in a no-confidence vote in parliament last week.The fall of the...
Turkey has agreed to lift its veto on Sweden and Finland joining NATO, thus removing a key obstacle to the...
In response to the imposition of sanctions and the EU’s decision to accelerate the reduction of its dependence on Russian...
Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
The Strategic Compass represents a major political proposal to prevent the risk of “strategic shrinkage”. Strategic shrinkage refers to three...
Original source Visegrad Insight: The Madrid NATO summit will set NATO’s strategic direction for the next decade and beyond, while...
It is our pleasure to finally share with you the result of joint efforts of both Strategic Policy Institute and...
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has, indirectly, led to a significant strengthening of NATO’s eastern wing defences. In addition to increasing...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated on Saturday that Ankara continues to oppose the accession of Sweden and Finland to...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Non-Military Security
Denmark agreed to join the EU’s common security and defence policy in a referendum triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine....
The war in Ukraine has significantly changed the security policy of Scandinavia’s two hitherto neutral states – Sweden and especially...
Great power competition is a trendy concept that frames the current perception of international affairs held by many. As such,...
In recent years CIMIC became almost a synonym for participation in missions abroad. Most of NATO and EU member countries...