NEED TO KNOW   Letting Sunshine In: Albania Appoints a New Anti-Corruption Minister – a Bot  ALBANIA  Last month, a new minister […]

NEED TO KNOW  Georgian Opposition Plans Takeover of Country From Pro-Russian Government To Break ‘Stalemate’  GEORGIA  Every day, for nearly a year, […]

NEED TO KNOW  Dog Days: In the Czech Republic, Competence Means Losing an Election  CZECH REPUBLIC  Around 42 percent of Czechs own […]

NEED TO KNOW  A Big Choice: Moldova Goes to the Polls in an Election That Will Decide Its Future    MOLDOVA  Last month, […]

NEED TO KNOW  No Way Out: France Erupts Again Over Hard Choices  FRANCE  Early last Wednesday morning, before most commuters hit the […]

NEED TO KNOW  A Bridge Too Far: Italy To Build Controversial Link Between Sicily and the Mainland  ITALY  Torre Faro, a fishing […]

NEED TO KNOW  Good Money: Norwegians Go to the Polls Amid an Uproar Over their Country’s Investments  NORWAY  Norway’s $1.87 trillion sovereign […]

NEED TO KNOW  Corgis and Coalitions: Lithuania Struggles With Turmoil, Inside and Out  LITHUANIA  Corgis and their owners descended on the Lithuanian […]

NEED TO KNOW  As Tensions Threaten to Split the Country, Bosnians Hold Their Breath  BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA  Thousands gathered in Srebrenica last […]

NEED TO KNOW  Switzerland, Spurned By the US, Turns To the EU  SWITZERLAND  When the Swiss recently learned they would be hit […]

NEED TO KNOW  The Long Arc of Atonement: Belgium to Try Nonagenarian Nobleman For Six-Decade-Old Congolese Murder   BELGIUM  On June 30, 1960, […]

NEED TO KNOW  Second Chances: Russia’s Economy is Bleeding But Putin Is Betting on a Win in Alaska  RUSSIA  Over the weekend, […]

NEED TO KNOW  Trust in Zombies: How the Tiny Principality of Liechtenstein Faces a Massive Crisis Because of a Distant War  LIECHTENSTEIN   […]

NEED TO KNOW  Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them: Russia’s Love-Hate Relationship With Migrants Leads To New Crackdown   RUSSIA  Russian […]

NEED TO KNOW  Fight between the Haves And the Have-Nots Heats Up In the Czech Republic  CZECH REPUBLIC  Former Czech Justice Minister […]

NEED TO KNOW  Ukraine’s Push to Dismantle Anti-Corruption Efforts Jeopardizes War Efforts  UKRAINE  On July 22, thousands of Ukrainians hit the streets, […]

NEED TO KNOW  The Serbian Standoff: Students Won’t Back Down. Neither Will the President  SERBIA  Late last month, more than 140,000 Serbians […]

NEED TO KNOW  Spending Spree: To Defend Europe, Germany Opens Its Wallet  GERMANY/ EUROPEAN UNION US presidents have long berated the Germans […]

NEED TO KNOW  No Quarter: ‘Firebrand’ Dutch Far-Right Leader Offers Solutions But No Compromise  NETHERLANDS  Last month, Dutch far-right, anti-Islam, populist, Eurosceptic […]

NEED TO KNOW  I Do: Bulgaria Goes To the Altar Despite Jitters Over the Euro  BULGARIA  Next year, the poorest member of […]

NEED TO KNOW  In Russia’s Fight Against Ukraine, ‘War Is the Ideology’  RUSSIA/ UKRAINE  Russia and Ukrainian prisoners of war recently gained […]

NEED TO KNOW  Sticks and Stones: Europeans Debate, Defend and ‘Dismantle’ Free Speech  EUROPE  When US Vice President J.D. Vance said Europe […]

NEED TO KNOW  As the World Pushes a Truce, Russia and Ukraine’s War – and Peace – Drag On UKRAINE/RUSSIA  Fifty thousand […]

NEED TO KNOW  Walking the Walk: The EU Is Losing Patience With Its Hungarian Problem Child  HUNGARY  In January, when Hungary’s six-month […]