Janez Jansa has steered one of the most liberal countries in East-Central Europe right off the road.
The Trump of Slovenia
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Slovenia
Trump 2021: Szitsky Krik
Imagining a ‘Schitt’s Creek’-style landing for the Trumps… in Slovenia.
Balkans: The Bulwark of Christianity?
Anti-immigration sentiment has created a new set of walls in the Balkans.
Could the Yugoslav Wars Have Been Avoided?
In 1990, the large national debt, stagnation, and Serbian nationalism threatened to tear apart the Yugoslav state.
Balkans: Still Digging Toward NATO
Despite the fallout in Ukraine, several Balkan countries are angling to join NATO — and freely misinforming their publics to get there.
NATO: Rebellion in the Ranks?
The countries of the former Warsaw Pact are not knuckling under to pressure from Russia. They’re trying to avoid a new cold war.
Europe: The Sky’s Not Falling
Yes, the far right performed well in Europe’s elections. But wherever voters had a clear choice between economic democracy and right-wing xenophobia, they went left.
The Former Yugoslavia: “We Were So Close to Preventing Genocide”
Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since 1989. In 1990, when I was in Romania, inter-ethnic conflicts broke out in Transylvania. Although the cause of the conflict in March 1990 in Targu...
Occupy Slovenia
Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. John is currently traveling in Eastern Europe and observing its transformations since 1989. The Occupy movement began in the United States – at a statue of a bull standing in the heart of Wall Street in New York City. It spread quite...
Slovenia and Bulgaria: a Tale of Two Reforms
Slovenia has virtually vaulted into Western Europe while Bulgaria has remained behind the informal Iron Curtain that continues to divide the developed from the developing parts of the region.