NEED TO KNOW Rule by Orthrus CROATIA Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković has overseen fantastic economic growth and integrated the Balkan country […]

NEED TO KNOW Hail Mary FRANCE For French President Emmanuel Macron, the past few weeks have been the best of times – […]

NEED TO KNOW Legislating Legacy BELARUS Russian military interrogators tortured Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in a government-owned camp in Belarus, according to […]

NEED TO KNOW Tax and Spend IRELAND Ireland received a windfall of around $14 billion recently when a decade of litigation ended […]

NEED TO KNOW Blowing Up ICELAND A volcano was predicted to erupt just as Icelanders head to the polls to elect a […]

NEED TO KNOW Choosing a Direction ROMANIA Romanian voters are set to elect a new parliament and president over the next few […]

NEED TO KNOW Outsourcing Crisis EUROPEAN UNION Around 36 percent fewer migrants attempted to cross into the European Union in the first […]

NEED TO KNOW Last Man Falling UKRAINE Ukraine’s plan for victory against Russia is well-known. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently told […]

NEED TO KNOW The Scent of Desperation GEORGIA Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili had a question recently for Bidzina Ivanishvili, a pro-Russian billionaire […]

NEED TO KNOW The King’s Gambit MOLDOVA Moldovan police recently foiled an “unprecedented” Russian plot to meddle in the East European country’s […]

NEED TO KNOW Metastasis SWEDEN Criminals in Sweden are making big money selling strawberries at roadside stands. These allegations might seem silly, […]

NEED TO KNOW Cutting the Gordian Knot GERMANY Twenty-five years ago, Germany was famously called the “sick man of Europe.” In the […]

NEED TO KNOW Hoping For a Thaw BULGARIA Freedom of information advocacy group Reporters Without Borders once concluded that Bulgarian media mogul […]

NEED TO KNOW Last Man Falling UKRAINE Ukraine’s plan for victory against Russia is well-known. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently told […]

NEED TO KNOW Disaster Management AUSTRIA Austrian politicians running for parliament before elections on Sept. 29 paused their campaigns recently after flooding […]

NEED TO KNOW Base Instincts CZECH REPUBLIC The right-wing Freedom and Direct Democracy Party’s political billboard in Wenceslas Square in the capital […]

NEED TO KNOW Mother Russia RUSSIA For Russia to remain a great power in the world, the world needs more Russian babies. […]

NEED TO KNOW Neighborly Relations NORTH MACEDONIA Five months after he was elected to office in early May, North Macedonia’s nationalist, right-wing […]

NEED TO KNOW The Price of Stardom ALBANIA “Impossibly blue skies, a wild and dramatic coast, and warm Mediterranean waters lapping at […]

NEED TO KNOW Blinis in Buenos Aires RUSSIA Russian émigrés are buying apartments, beauty salons, restaurants, and other assets in Argentina and […]

NEED TO KNOW Flipping the Script RUSSIA-UKRAINE Top Ukrainian commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi boasted this week that his troops now control almost […]

NEED TO KNOW ‘Mother’ of Change ITALY Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls her plan to change the structure of governance in […]

NEED TO KNOW Human Shields RUSSIA The return of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and other […]

NEED TO KNOW Pull Harder GREECE Greece recently adopted a six-day working week to maintain its workforce as its population ages, but […]