by Ava Herzog | Feb 12, 2026 | Boston University
The European Union recently froze 10 billion euros in payments to Hungary, over concern that the Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, had failed to carry out promised judicial reforms. In 2022, the Commission suspended the funds due to corruption and threats to judicial...
by Ainsley Tischler | Dec 1, 2025 | Northeastern University
On Monday, November 10th, Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies revealed that several of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s long-time associates and other members of the government were allegedly involved in taking roughly 100 million dollars in kickbacks from Ukraine’s...
by Asya Welch | Nov 20, 2025 | University of Pittsburgh
In the May 2023 Turkish presidential election, the world watched closely to see if voters would finally have the power to put an end to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20 year rule. However, the voters’ choice was an illusion. Erdogan secured his re-election in...
by Joshua Marsh | Apr 17, 2025 | Boston University
Firewalls and regional equivalents to it have recently come under heavy strain as nationalist far-right parties have found themselves relative electoral success in the past two years in Central and Western Europe. As it is used in the non-technological setting, the...
by Brian Farrell Wiggins | Apr 9, 2025 | Tartu University
On the 26 of March, the Estonian parliament (the Riigikogu) passed a constitutional amendment to remove the rights to vote in local elections for non-EU residents (Kangro, 2025). This was sparked by a motivation to disenfranchise residents who are citizens of the...
