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OSW Commentary | | Piotr Szymański

NATO summit in The Hague Trumps return and a two-component 5 of GDP on defence

The NATO summit in The Hague (24–25 June) – the first chaired by new Secretary General Mark Rutte – was minimalist in both form and content. It concluded with a record-low five-point declaration. This approach to a meeting of NATO heads of…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Albania a fourth term for Prime Minister Edi Rama

On 11 May, parliamentary elections were held in Albania, resulting in a sweeping victory for the ruling Socialist Party (PS), led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, who has been in power since 2013. According to preliminary results, the PS…
OSW Commentary | | Paulina Wankiewicz

The vanishing Balkans The regions demographic crisis

The demographic situation in the six Western Balkans countries (WB6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, has been marked by a steady decline in population over the past two decades.…