Slower growth looms over Eastern Europe and Central Asia as inflation, weak external demand, and structural inertia take hold ...

which are bearing the financial brunt of Europe’s military build-up. An EU diplomat from a small eastern country told POLITICO that even if countries at the border with Russia upped their defense ...

"Because many countries in the Balkans are EU and/or NATO members ... ethnonationalist narratives in East and Southeast Europe. "The primary reason for this is to divide the European population ...