Ben Kerckx (Pixabay)

From multi-billion dollar American deals to French fuel cycles, Central Europe is fast-tracking its nuclear transition.

Glenn Carstens-Peters  [Unsplash]

Open any government laptop in Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, or Warsaw and the chances are overwhelming that it runs Windows, logs into Microsoft 365, and stores its files in an American cloud. This is not an accident of history but the result of decades of procurement decisions, institutional inertia, and the sheer dominance of Silicon Valley.

Chosen Soul [Unsplash]

As Ukraine defends itself on the battlefield, it also fights an intensifying information war. Across central Europe, Russian disinformation exploits fears, fuels anti-Ukraine sentiment, and undermines trust in democratic institutions. From fake news in Poland to EU scepticism in Slovakia, the Kremlin’s narratives adapt to each country’s vulnerabilities, including Ukraine’s own.

By Aleksandra Krzysztoszek (Euractiv.pl), Kateřina Zichová (Euractiv.cz), Natália Silenská (Euractiv.sk) and Yana Sliemzina (Gwara Media)

International Criminal Court

While conversation on Russia-Ukraine war shifts to discussion of concession Ukraine should or should not make to establish some sort of peace, the count of alleged Russian war crimes keeps growing. Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland are involved in documenting war crimes cases and sharing their findings with international courts, but not all are willing to prosecute under universal jurisdiction in their countries. Ukraine is dealing both with the legal system’s unpreparedness to process over 150,000 cases and the challenge of doing all that during war.

By Ondřej Plevák | Euractiv.cz, Yana Sliemzina | Gwara Media Aleksandra Krzysztoszek | Euractiv.pl, Natália Silenská | Euractiv.sk

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