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  • Belgrade, Serbia © Roman023_photography/Shutterstock

    Serbia’s independent media are currently experiencing a new turbulent phase, following yet another change of ownership. Is this another attempt by the Serbian government to silence the non-aligned press? A recap of what has happened over the last year

    28/08/2026, Giorgio Russo 

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    repression

    Georgia has joined the group of countries that repress dissent beyond its national borders. For several years now, there has been a growing number of cases of opponents of the Georgian Dream party being reached abroad and subjected to illegal arrests, threats and intimidation. The third and final part of our in-depth analysis

    28/08/2026, Marilisa Lorusso 

  • Tbilisi, Georgia - "March for Europe" 2024 © Mirko Kuzmanovic/Shutterstock
    Civil society

    In recent years, across Europe and beyond, there has been a proliferation of transparency regulations for media outlets and NGOs receiving foreign funding. The deeper threat to civil society, however, isn’t foreign funding. It’s that domestic funding doesn’t exist.

    27/08/2026, Alexander Kaffka  Tbilisi

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    Vittime di guerra

    On 8 July, the European Parliament adopted what several MEPs called a historic resolution: the first official EU recognition of the sexual violence committed against women and girls during Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus. What this development could set in motion is only beginning to unfold

    26/08/2026, Mary Drosopoulos  Strasbourg

  • EUMM monitors patrolling along the fenced South Ossetia Administrative Boundary Line
    Peace

    Following the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the EU established a civilian monitoring mission in Georgia. Since then, the EUMM has been making an impartial contribution to stability and security, even though relations between the EU and Georgia have become increasingly strained

    26/08/2026, Tornike Kakalashvili  Gori

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    startup and cohesion policy

    The Romanian investment fund Nucleo Ventures, recently created thanks to EU funding through cohesion policy, will provide venture capital support for tech startups ranging from 150,000 to 1.4 million euros. An interview with Valentin Filip, president of the new fund

    26/08/2026, Claudiu Zamfir