Daniel Gleichgewicht

Wrocław

Assistant Editor at New Eastern Europe

Editor @NewEastEurope. Tweets about international relations, European affairs, culture and football.

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Articles

The Kosovo-Serbia dispute amid global turmoil: a defining test for the EU

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

With the war in Ukraine entering its fourth year and tensions emerging in the transatlantic relationship, the EU finds itself at a pivotal moment in its history. The new European Commission is confronted with a myriad of challenges that will shape the future of Europe, ranging from economic instability and energy security to internal divisions and geopolitical tensions. Among these challenges is also the long-standing Kosovo-Serbia dispute.
The Nagorno-Karabakh refugee problem is still an unresolved issue more than one year after the deportation

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Just over one year ago, as a result of the September 2023 military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 100,000 Armenians were forced to leave their homes. According to data provided by the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, in total, more than 200 people died as a result of the aggression. Twelve remain missing. In Azerbaijan, 23 Armenians are currently being held as prisoners, including the former military and political leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh.
What Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican can do for Ukraine

1 week ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

On May 7th, 133 cardinals at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City to elect the next pope of the Catholic Church. Known as the “conclave”, the selection process was conducted in secrecy. These religious leaders deliberated for several hours, with millions of Catholics awaiting any news anxiously as the cardinals decided who to pick. After a few rounds of voting, the group of 133 selected the new leader of the Catholic Church.
Russia’s hybrid war on NATO’s Eastern Flank quietly escalates

2 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Mastering the hybrid warfare toolkit from 2014What started with masked soldiers in Crimea and covert proxies in Donbas has evolved into a complex, multi-layered hybrid strategy employed by the Kremlin against the West.
Inside a new Cold War brewing in an Eastern European capital

2 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Twice while off his shift in a hospital, Vladislavs was reprimanded by other doctors for speaking Russian with another co-worker. He was told that speaking Russian was not appropriate. “ It’s not a joke. It’s not a joke. That’s why I’m not feeling accepted so much in Latvia,” said Vladislavs, who is a doctor in training in Riga. He did not want his surname revealed out of fear that he would lose access to jobs and opportunities in the medical field if his identity were revealed.
Resisting foreign interference: Poland’s presidential election and the Russian challenge

2 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

On June 1st, Poles elected their new President Karol Nawrocki supported by the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. During the campaign period leading up to the two election rounds, the ruling coalition repeatedly warned of foreign interference, namely from Russia. The Kremlin has long been known for meddling with elections around the world. In Romania, it conducted disinformation campaigns against NATO and the EU and amplified the voices of pro-Russian candidates.
Zelenskyy has a lot of cards

2 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

VAZHA TAVBERIDZE: Regarding Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web – which saw Ukrainian drones destroy 34 per cent of Russia’s strategic bombers – what’s the magnitude we’re talking about here? What are the immediate and longer-term military implications for the course of the war? MICK RYAN: I think one has to consider both its impact on this war and its implications for warfare more broadly.
What Poland's election teaches us about Trump's war on Harvard

3 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Anyone wondering what motivates the ferocity of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education and scientific research in America might look at the numbers behind this past weekend’s victory of the Trump-aligned presidential candidate in Poland. Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist who narrowly defeated liberal the pro-European Rafał Trzaskowski, is no ordinary conservative.
How Russia’s neighbours re-evaluated Victory Day after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

3 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

Few days on Russia’s calendar are marked with more pomp than May 9th, the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies according to Moscow time. On the 80th edition of Victory Day, military vehicles and troop columns rumbled past the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin’s gaze. For the second decade, Russian organizers unfurled massive orange-black Saint George ribbons, the country’s official symbol of the Soviet Union’s triumph in the so-called Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.
Most pro-democracy operations were shut down in conflict-affected areas due to the Trump cuts

3 weeks ago | neweasterneurope.eu | Daniel Gleichgewicht

When Donald Trump first entered office in 2017, many questioned whether the United States would continue to promote democracy. Throughout his first term, this was indeed deprioritized – but it was not eliminated, as mainstream conservatives kept the president in check. In the first months of his second term, however, isolationism appears to be the main force shaping an increasingly transactional US foreign policy.