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NL Ukraine after four years of war: “We need new arguments”
This article is also available in English. Tomorrow, four years will have passed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. What began as a shock in February 2022 has turned into a protracted and exhausting reality - for Ukrainians, but also for Europeans. While European governments have consistently continued financial and military support, it seems [...]
Coalition agreement: “Getting started” in Europe, at your own pace?
D66, VVD and CDA this week presented their coalition agreement for the upcoming minority government that will govern the Netherlands under Rob Jetten's leadership. That the cabinet will have a significantly higher pro-European signature than its predecessor is clear from the outset. The three coalition parties devote considerable attention to geopolitical and European affairs, with the aim of putting the Netherlands back in [...]
In conversation with green activist: Andrej Zlatović on Serbian student movement, EU cooperation and neo-idealism
Source: Mašina/People's Dispatch This article is the first in a series of conversations in which International Foundation Groenlinks will engage with green activists from different parts of the world. The series looks beyond specific moments or campaigns and instead focuses on how activists reflect on their work, their context and current [...]
Expansion or stagnation? Our progressive agenda for (Southern) Eastern Europe in 2026
Ukraine: war, reforms and EU accession In Ukraine, war still rages daily. Peace seems far away due to persistent Russian aggression and US aberrations, despite intensive Ukrainian and European efforts to achieve peace. At the same time, Ukraine is fighting on a second front: democratising and strengthening society, institutions and politics with a view [...]
Democracy experienced under pressure in Belgrade
Source: Wikimedia Commons During a recent visit to Belgrade, including participation in an EFDS network meeting on democratic developments in the Western Balkans, the contrast between formal political analysis and the lived reality on the ground was impossible to ignore. Within the walls of a hotel conference room, participants spoke in abstract terms about the ongoing democratic decline in Serbia. [...]
Survival by escalation: Dodik's illegal referendum in Republika Srpska
Source: Wikimedia Commons On 25 October, citizens of Republika Srpska (RS), one of the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), will go to the polls for an unconstitutional referendum. The question put to them is strikingly worded: "Do you accept the decisions of unelected foreigner Christian Schmidt and the unconstitutional rulings [...]
Mikola Statkevich: released and re-imprisoned in Belarus
This is a repost of a report from 2023. Back in 2023, we shared a photo report on Mikola Statkevich, prominent political prisoner from Belarus. He was detained after participating in peaceful protests in 2020. Since 2023, he was kept in complete isolation, with no contact with the outside world. Until last Thursday, when Statkevich was released, together [...]
Also come to the commemoration 'Four trees for Belarus'
Tuesday, 16 September 2025 at 11:00 am To everyone who feels involved in the annual commemoration on 16 September at the four trees on the square near Paradijslaan and Zwembadweg. On 16 September, the eighteenth commemoration will take place at four trees planted in Eindhoven in 2008. The trees commemorate [...]
Europe's future in the hands of the Western Balkans
Source: Shutterstock It was not to be missed, the NATO summit in The Hague last week. With security on high alert in The Hague, tensions in the Middle East and the war in Ukraine, there was plenty to discuss around the forums. Besides the 5% NATO standard, it was reiterated that Russia is the biggest threat to NATO countries. [...]
Campaign training in the Caucasus
"We are broke, exhausted and frustrated." The participants of Georgia's annual Progressive Academy for Social Change do not mince words when I, as an FMS trainer, ask how they are doing. More than six months after Georgia's elections were unfair and large-scale protests broke out, they are through. The ruling party [...]