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The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
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Four peace agreements have been struck to try and keep Ukraine on an even keel, but none of them has resolved the conflict’s fundamental problems.
Preparing for the birthday party in Pristina.
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Europe’s youngest state badly wants into the EU, but the hurdles in place are high.
EPA/Jakub Kaczmarczyk
Reforms to the judiciary are a threat to democracy – and that affects us all.
A woman holding a Roma flag, at a protest in Lety, Czech Republic, the site of World War II Romani genocide.
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Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.
Viktor Orbán.
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Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
EPA/Szilard Koszticsak
Several post-communist member states are moving further and further away from European Union norms.
EPA/Martin Divisek
He’s been charged with fraud and is under investigation by the EU, so how did this former finance minister become the most likely candidate for prime minister?
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Migration may help to pay Western pensions, but life is hard for those left behind.
EPA/Jakub Kaczmarczyk
The European Union is threatening to suspend the state’s voting rights if it pursues legislation to restrict its judiciary.
Vetëvendosje founder Albin Kurti takes the stage.
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After years of propping up corrupt parties in the name of ‘order’, Kosovo’s international backers have a very different partner to deal with.
China’s road to global influence runs through Europe.
EPA/Wojciech Pacewicz
European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
“Hanging Man” by David Cerny - Uncertainty about intellectualism in the 20th century.
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In some places, the dismal labour conditions of young academics have spurred them to unionise. Not so in the Czech Republic, where students and intellectuals lead lives of “state-ordered poverty”.
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It’s there … but it changes over time.
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If the western Balkan countries can’t join the EU, their complicated ethnic politics might boil over once again.
Migrants don’t all have the same types of capital.
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The experience of Serbian Londoners shows how migrants should not be treated as a single group.
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Britain has a number of bilateral treaties with Eastern European countries that will remain after Brexit.
A new dawn for the EU in 2004: Tony Blair speaking at the accession of ten countries.
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In 2004 the Labour government allowed citizens of the 10 new EU states labour market access. Why did Blair make this decision?
EPA/Filip Singer
While the citizens of the capital protest against their president, everyone else hails him as their saviour.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing.
Anders Adermark
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has baffled many in Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, where nostalgia for life before the EU is virtually non-existent.