Open Dialogue Research Journal
lgaria-Radev-BrusselsB When EU leaders gathered in Brussels on 15 October, the conversation quickly settled on familiar themes — energy security, budget negotiations and relations with China. Most capitals stuck to the established script of diversification and long-term climate goals. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev cut through the rhetoric with a […]
Poland’s confrontation over the Constitutional Tribunal has already produced a political proposal extending far beyond the court: replacing Donald Tusk’s government. On October 31, former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki proposed a constructive vote of no confidence and a temporary administration headed by former parliamentary speaker Marek Jurek. The proposal emerged […]
One can oppose both Polish meddling in Ukraine and EU meddling in Poland since what’s happening in Poland is no less consequential than what happened in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published a detailed post about Poland on Telegram that’s worth reading. It’s surprisingly informative considering that she […]
Poland is facing one of the most serious constitutional crises in its recent history. What began as a dispute over judicial appointments has escalated into a confrontation over control of the Constitutional Tribunal, with police deployed around the court, judges challenging one another’s authority, and President Karol Nawrocki cutting short […]
Poland’s German-backed liberal premier wants to hamstring the US-backed conservative president’s efforts to lead the EU’s reform into a union of nation-states if his allies return to power next fall, which would save it from becoming a German-dominated federation and turn Poland into a regional power. Liberal Polish Prime Minister […]
The morning after Aleksandar Vucic’s surprise defeat, Serbian voters still did not know who would replace him. The movement that ousted him, Student List, won 53% of the vote in a snap election that Vucic himself had called in response to protests over alleged government corruption. The group is expected […]
The synchronicity with which Joey Mannarino, Valentina Gomez, Javier Negre and Weronika Rogowska suddenly started speaking is hard to miss. These were not isolated comments about Serbia. The same set of talking points, nearly identical formulations, the same framing: the Student List is a leaderless construct; the protests involve “Bosnian […]
This development is incredibly important since it could set into motion a sequence of US-mediated events for alleviating military-security tensions between E-NATO and Russia after the end of the Ukrainian Conflict per a grand deal between all parties. Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store called […]
On Sunday night Aleksandar Vucic, the populist and nationalist who has dominated Serbian politics as prime minister or president since 2014, stood before television cameras and conceded defeat. “It is clear that we have lost these elections, the Student List has won,” he said. Within moments, tens of thousands of […]
Serbia has reached a point where the familiar order is no longer working. More than twelve years of dominance by the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić ended with his own acknowledgment of defeat. According to the preliminary count, the “Student List” has secured an absolute majority in parliament with […]
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