Russia’s Old ‘Trojan Horse’ Plays East Against West

Hidden away from the holiday resorts and quietly rundown villages on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast lies what locals refer to […]

The cheapest countries to live in 2016

THRIFTY LIVING       Want to know where you can get cheap groceries, eat out for less and rent […]

Is the refugee crisis an opportunity for an aging Europe?

Europe is facing the biggest inflow of migrants in decades. The number of refugees from conflict zones in Syria, Iraq, […]

12 Countries That Hate Their Government Most

By Alexander E.M. Hess and Thomas C. Frohlich Europeans went in May to the polls to vote for their representatives to the European […]

You Need to Know This About “Buying” a Second Passport

By Bob Bauman JD, International Living, Big-spending, deep-in-debt governments everywhere are looking for money. So national tax collectors have dusted […]

Why Moldova Urgently Matters

By Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor, “NATO’s Article 5 offers little protection against Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” Iulian Fota, Romania’s presidential national […]

Borderlands: The View Beyond Ukraine

From Stratfor, Installment in George Friedman’s recent series written during his journey from the Baltics, through Central and Eastern Europe […]

Geopolitical Journey, Part 2: Borderlands

By George Friedman, Stratfor, A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we […]

Serbia leader calls Gazprom pipeline vital

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Gazprom’s South Stream pipeline, which will bypass Ukraine to transport Russian natural gas to Europe, is […]

OTC market in Central Europe to exceed €5bn in 2013

  In 2011 OTC (over-the-counter) product pharmacy sales in Central Europe (CE)[1] were worth €4.4bn, a 5% year on year […]