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WHAT THE WEALTH OF NATIONS INDEX IN 2026 REVEALS ABOUT THE BALTIC STATES
06/12/2026 CPI analysis in cooperation with the Warsaw Enterprise Institute. Full results and the interactive ranking: wni.wei.org.pl Lithuania remains among the world’s most efficient countries in turning resources into tangible benefits for citizens, according to the Wealth of Nations Index (WNI) 2026. The country ranks 23rd among 40 developed economies, maintaining its position from last year and outperforming its Baltic neighbours. Unlike traditional measures such as GDP,
Jun 10


HUNGARY ELECTIONS: INSIGHTS FROM A CLOSED DISCUSSION SIX MONTHS LATER
04/14/2026 Remigijus Simasius Photograph from a closed roundtable discussion held in 2025. Last November, the Centenary Policy Institute organized a discussion in Vilnius with Márton Hajdú. The discussion was closed — one of those cases when we could not publicly disclose either the meeting itself or, even more so, its conclusions, as the topic was highly sensitive: the Hungarian elections and the possibility of political change in Hungary. Márton Hajdú is an election strateg
Apr 14


EUROPEAN BUREAUCRACY IS FINALLY LEARNING TO COUNT TO FOUR MILLION
03/26/2026 Remigijus Simasius "Destroyed Russian armed vehicle in Ukraine. Russian aggressors definitely want to the EU. Do we want them here?" Picture ©Ukrinform Almost three years ago, when the Centenary Policy Institute first raised the idea that EU sanction lists should feature not a symbolic 2,000, but at least 4 million participants and supporters of the aggression, it was met with an arrogant smile in the corridors of Brussels. The System’s self-preservation instinct
Mar 26


ITALY’S BATMAN AND GERMANY’S COUNT OF MONTECRISTO: HOW MELONI AND MERZ ARE REDEFINING EUROPE’S DEFENSE IDENTITY
06/25/2025 by Francesco Galietti (founder of Policy Sonar, a Rome-based political risk consultancy) Federal Chancellor Merz and the Italian Prime Minister Meloni © pa/dp Giorgia Meloni and Friedrich Merz come from different backgrounds and experiences, yet their political trajectories are increasingly intersecting, shaped by the tectonic shifts in Europe and the world. The Italian Prime Minister, a product of Rome’s working-class Garbatella district, and the German Chancello
Jun 25, 2025


THE TRANSATLANTIC GAP
06/02/2025 Paulius Kuncinas Centenary Policy Institute roundtable in Washington, D.C., USA. Despite the shared values and long-standing...
Jun 2, 2025


UKRAINIAN ENDGAME: THE OPTIONS
04/07/2025 Owen Matthews Stop war picture ©Berghof Foundation We’re now more than two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, and only one...
Apr 7, 2025


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