Aug 1, 2022 | George Bogden
On May 10, Ukraine’s current president Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid homage to its first. Leonid Kravchuk “was the man who knew how to find wise words and say them so that all Ukrainians could hear them,” Zelensky said in tribute to his late predecessor. “This is especially important in difficult crisis moments when the future of an entire country may depend on the wisdom of one person.”
Jul 7, 2022 | Balázs Tárnok
On June 15, 2022, the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities published its Fifth Opinion on the Slovak Republic. The report criticizes Slovakia, among others, for the discrimination of the Hungarian...
May 28, 2022 | Lilla Nóra Kiss, Mónika Palotai
A two-faced accession policy will not save Ukraine, nor will it serve the interests of the European Union. Ukraine’s situation is sui generis. No other country has ever applied for European Union membership from a comparable situation. Harsh as it sounds, the E.U. is...
May 4, 2022 | Lilla Nóra Kiss, Mónika Palotai
Turning a blind eye to further reforms degrades the UN Charter to a piece of paper. Russia’s war in Ukraine appears to be throwing the United Nations a lifeline. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. Security Council to expel Russia or dissolve itself....
May 3, 2022 | Balázs Tárnok
Foggy Bottom’s latest report on human rights abuses in Slovakia omits worrisome realities.
On April 12, the State Department published its annual human rights country reports. While certain countries and issues are being strictly scrutinized, serious human rights violations in the heart of Europe are consistently ignored. This goes against America’s own interests and undermines transatlantic unity at a critical time.
