A temporary trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, established after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, is slated to expire on Thursday (Jun 5). Kyiv warns this will have a major ...

The Warsaw Pact, established in 1955, was a military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite states, including Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and ...

The threat of West Germany’s entry into NATO in 1955 caused the USSR to retaliate by forming the Warsaw Pact or ‘Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.’ New Zealand banned ...

What resulted was the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949. The Warsaw Pact was signed six years later in response to West Germany joining NATO. Natasha Fernandes ...

Then there will be Czechia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Everyone will go back. The Warsaw Pact countries are, as they say, a ...

Having spent some years intermittently covering former Warsaw Pact countries as a journalist for various publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Politico Europe, and the like including cover ...