Time is running out this week on budget-law drafts across several CEE capitals.

Ahead of today’s Trump-Xi meeting, I spoke with Theresa Fallon, Founder and Director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies in Brussels. Read on Europe’s China threat, the coming EU Security Strategy and the limits of Brussels’ toolbox.

Ursula von der Leyen has made clear that under current conditions, Europe’s economic ties with China are unsustainable. Although political momentum in Brussels and many European capitals is at a historic high, it is unclear how exactly the bloc intends to rebalance them.

President Dan ended a political deadlock by nominating Siegfried Mureșan as prime minister-designate. Mureșan is a Member of the European Parliament for the National Liberal Party (PNL). Watch out for challenges and comebacks from Călin Georgescu. He is the controversial presidential candidate whose massive social media campaign led to the...

Europe is wealthy, well regulated, but under-armed and patronised by its own western half. Russia is not binding its time. Tune in to the keynote address and Q&A discussion with Radosław Sikorski.

The State of the Union address and the Europe Future Forum in Warsaw come as the Commission prepares its new European Security Strategy. Welcome to this special edition of the Weekly Outlook by Visegrad Insight.

Ageing demographics are now a binding constraint on growth, public finance and EU convergence for the region. Demographic resilience should become part of the enlargement agenda.

AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt lights a fire under CEE’s sovereigntists and strong statements from those opposing them.

On 28 August 2026 Poland’s Council of Ministers adopted a draft budget in which the Constitutional Tribunal appears nowhere. The omission is not a mistake but a strategic gambit by Donald Tusk ahead of an important vote this Friday.