By Francesco Foti Introduction To counter the Euroatlantic integration process in the Western Balkans —a multiethnic and multireligious mélange— Moscow, and, albeit less evidently, China have alternatively exploited intercommunal historical grievances, irredentism, subtle infiltration through illegality, the stalemate in the EU integration process and the halted EU enlargement process. The strategies can be linked toContinue reading “North Macedonia’s EU Integration and the Russo-Chinese Strategy”
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The Overlooked Role of Soviet Child Soldiers in Defeating Adolf Hitler
By Matyas Goupil Introduction The Second World War was apocalyptic for the USSR. 1,700 towns and 70,000 villages burned down; 32,000 factories destroyed; 27 million deaths, two thirds of whom were children. The war proved to be an existential conflict in which people fought for their very right to live against an ideology determined toContinue reading “The Overlooked Role of Soviet Child Soldiers in Defeating Adolf Hitler”
Putin’s Broken Promise
By Jelle Baartmans In the past few weeks, most of Europe’s attention has focused on Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his increasingly repressive measures against the Belarusian people —including but not limited to making an intra-EU Ryanair flight land in Minskunder false pretences to arrest one of the plane’s passengers. At the same time, it is worth payingContinue reading “Putin’s Broken Promise”
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