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DEMOCRACY DIGEST: CZECHIA AND POLAND MINE RICH SEAM OF ANTAGONISM

Czechia launches first ever legal case against another EU member state over environmental issues, while Slovakia’s coalition continues to buckle under the strain of the pandemic. So much for the vaunted unity of the Visegrad Four. The Czech Republic this week announced plans to launch a legal case at the …

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China is World’s ‘Greatest Geopolitical Test’, Blinken Says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Wednesday that the relationship between the United States and China is the world’s “biggest geopolitical test” of the century. In his first major foreign policy speech, Blinken said the new Biden administration would “manage” ties with China “from a position of strength.” “That …

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Russia-Turkey Pincer Movement Threatens Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Survival

It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects. The Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, is the spiritual leader of some 300 million Orthodox …

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