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By Oana Popescu
June 2013
Stratfor
Central-Eastern Europe has been feeling the earth slipping beneath its feet, as it has been losing precisely these cherished boons. Instead, it has found itself sandwiched between an increasingly aggressive Russia, an EU in crisis and growing disunity, a more stand-offish and disengaged United States and now a more and more unstable and unpredictable vicinity.
By Oana Popescu
March 2013
Aspen Institute
As both NATO and EU seem to be grappling for their identities and so is the Euro-Atlantic relationship, Central European countries find the pillars of their sense of security gone and their perspectives for prosperity dimmed.
By Oana Popescu
January 2013
Aspen Institute
The recent political developments in Romania could be a lesson in the dynamics of EU democracy at a time when the EU is struggling with new nationalisms and democratic deficit—if the EU is not too busy with eurozone stability, to the detriment of quality of governance.
Read more at http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/1-2013-do-not-always-fear-when-democracy-takes-to-the-streets/
By Oana Popescu
November 2012
Stratfor
For the first time in many years, the most vulnerable flanks of the EU and NATO are internally weak, while also facing pressure from outside.
Read more at https://www.stratfor.com/the-hub/perils-periphery
By Oana Popescu
September 2012
Stratfor
For Germany, the deepening of integration is a major economic interest and a crucial political engagement. In a globalised world, the political relevance, economic competitiveness and the security of the EU are dependent on how it comes out of this crisis. And the fate of Germany is fully interlocked with that of the EU.
Read more at https://www.stratfor.com/the-hub/elephant-room-germany%E2%80%99s-choice
By Oana Popescu
June 2012
Stratfor
In a debate at the Copenhagen Business School, moderator and CNN anchor Richard Quest was asking panelists and students which of the numerous and important elections this year would be more instrumental in setting the tone globally – both from an economic and political point of view. US? France? Russia? China? Greece? All of the above? Or will none change the course of the world in any radical way?
Read more at https://www.stratfor.com/the-hub/elections-without-choice