February 2026 The energy diplomacy represents one of the key dimensions of the contemporary foreign policy of Azerbaijan, a country located at the geopolitical crossroads between Europe and Asia, and which has, during the last decades, succeeded in transforming its energy position into an instrument of stability, development, and international cooperation. From the perspective of […]
February 2026 The threats by the governments of Hungary and Slovakia to suspend the supply of electricity to Ukraine, which marked the world media space at the end of February 2026, expose the deep fragility of the energy infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe and at the same time demonstrate how much political decisions in
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February 2026 The United States has announced the first diplomatic event to allow the provision of consular services within a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, departing from a long-standing policy of treating the settlements as a major obstacle to the peace process. The planned provision of routine passport services to US citizens in
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February 2026 The war in Syria, which began in 2011 as a spontaneous social and political protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, soon transformed into a multi-layered conflict, in which local, regional and global interests were intertwined, creating a suitable climate for the expansion of extremist organizations, especially the so-called Islamic State (IS), which
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February 2026 For years, the Western Balkans has been living under the regime of Western sanctions against Russia without a clear answer to the question of whether the region represents a peripheral area of European politics or its latent security extension, and therefore the states of the region, each in their own way, are trying
February 2026 In early 2026, the re-release of documents related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein caused a strong media impulse. Reactions were global, but particularly intense in Western countries, as well as in the Western Balkans. The region already operates with a low threshold of trust in institutions. That’s why every shock acts as
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February 2026 The beginning of 2026 marked the return of the idea of a possible American takeover of Greenland in the political and media space, after the US President, Donald Trump, again publicly signaled his interest in the territory, reviving the initiative he expressed during his first term, but now in a significantly changed international
February 2026 Political dynamics in states with an Albanian population at the beginning of 2026 show pronounced signs of overcomposition of opposition scenes, which is currently most present in the Republic of Albania. Protests, student mobilizations, and activities of new political movements point to growing dissatisfaction, but also to the absence of a coherent strategy
January 2026 The US withdrawal from the World Health Organization, formally completed on January 22, 2026, represents one of the most significant institutional interventions in the global public health system in the last few decades. Washington’s decision was explained by statements that the World Health Organization (WHO) did not adequately respond to previous pandemic challenges,
January 2026 On January 1, 2026, Bulgaria introduced the euro and thus formally entered the narrowest core of European monetary integration, thereby closing a long and often politically burdened adjustment process that for years simultaneously functioned as a technical project of economic convergence and as a symbolic act of confirming the country’s strategic orientation towards
