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COVER FEATURE
24 EU knockback for Albania and North Macedonia has deep negative repercussions at home
CENTRAL EUROPE
28 It’s four more years of Law and Justice in Poland but what’s next?
30 Hungary's opposition scores stunning upsets in local elections
31 Lithuania considers banning purchases of electricity from Belarus’ nuclear power plant
SOUTHEAST EUROPE
32 France blocks launch of
EU membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia
33 A new era in Kosovan politics as opposition parties prepare to form government
35 The Syria Attraction – Putin and Trump tell Erdogan to stick with what he has, but Erdogan needs more
EASTERN EUROPE
36 Samolet residential real estate business is flying
39 Reformer pledges to transform Ukraine's notoriously corrupt State Customs Service
41 Ukraine’s banks back in the black but face serious challenges
EURASIA
42 Tajikistan’s massive Rogun hydropower dam: a blessing or a curse?
47 Pashinian allies lament slow pace of change in the new Armenia
49 Uzbekistan’s five-year goal to overhaul its energy industry
OPINION
50 Decline of the West and rise of the rest
54 How do illiberal economies attract so much FDI
56 Uzbekistan reforms are real, can they sustain them?
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NEW EUROPE IN NUMBERS
September's round of statistics bring some surprisingly good results – almost too good
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