A Golden Age in central and eastern Europe, which became one of the best places in the world to live
Some of the world’s best places to live are, apparently, now in central and eastern Europe.
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Dragon’s teeth and ditches: inside the Baltics’ new 950km defence barrier against Russia
As warnings of possible provocations from Moscow pile up, a system of ditches, trenches and bunkers is beginning to take shape along the 950-km border that the Baltic states share with Russia.
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Brussels let one small country police Europe’s fintech – and now that guard is backing away
Lithuania built the EU’s biggest home for fintech payments firms. Now its own regulator is retreating, and the fixes from Brussels arrive too late to undo what is already through the gate.
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Belarus attack on a university in Lithuania shows the reach of the Lukashenko regime
The Lukashenko regime in Minsk’s move against a university in Lithuania looks like part of an authoritarian playbook that Europe has already named, documented and still not fully learned how to answer.
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The shocking return of anti-personnel mines to Europe
At the start of last year, all 27 EU member states were signed up to the Ottawa Convention, banning the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines. Now Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finalnd have withdrawn — with silence from Brussels.