On April 20, GSSC hosted a conversation on Bulgaria’s snap parliamentary elections. Here are the key insights from the discussion.

Russia’s shadow fleet has become one of the central mechanisms enabling the continuation of Russian oil exports despite the extensive sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

On April 13, GSSC hosted a conversation on Hungary’s parliamentary elections. Here’s what you need to know.

This report analyses the changing role of Russian information operations across Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Poland, bringing together eight country-focused studies into a single analytical policy paper.

Since 2019, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)¹ has been navigating a markedly changed geopolitical landscape, in which partnerships with non-EU actors are evaluated not only for their economic potential but also for their implications for security, political resilience, and long-term dependencies, particularly in the economic and technological spheres.

For the past three decades, since the decision to join NATO, the core of Lithuania’s national security outlook has been based on the strategic security partnership with the United States. For Lithuania, the United States has never been just another ally; it has been the ultimate security guarantor without which neither NATO’s Article 5 nor the broader deterrence architecture in the Baltic region (and Europe, in a broader geopolitical picture) would be credible.

For the fourth consecutive year, we present the Democracy Sustainability Barometer, aiming to systematically measure, evaluate, and compare the attitudes of Lithuanian residents toward democracy and their resilience to propaganda from authoritarian states in the East.