In this week’s podcast, the TWiCE team talk to Claudia Ciobanu about this week’s ructions between the EU’s eastern states, Ukraine and the EU over the issue of Ukrainian grain imports, which have – no doubt to Vladimir Putin’s delight – broken the hitherto strong solidarity between the various parties.
In other news, the European Commission sues Slovakia twice in a week; Russia’s ‘spy bank’ makes an ignominious exit from Budapest; and Czechia’s reactionary right push at an open door as Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s support plummets.
To read more about these and other stories from the region this week, go to www.balkaninsight.com/reporting-democracy and click on the weekly Democracy Digest.