Yesterday, I continued the IDMVienna webinar series for the Research Service of the Верховна Рада України🇺🇦. This time we tackled challenges of EU enlargement, but I also ended with some opportunities. Up to 100 participants joined the discussion, thank you for this privilege!

Dear Followers! It has become a tradition for us to recommend movies📽️ and TV series from or about our region that are perfect for the winter season.☃️🎄 Check out the IDM team’s suggestions for what to watch this winter (Link in the comment)!👇 1/2

#Milanović wins by a landslide. A defeat for #Plenković? Not at all. A more right-wing #HDZ candidate could have challenged Milanović – but Plenković had no interest in empowering the far-right in his party or risking Milanović’s return to #SDP leadership. #croatia #izboriHR

It’s a wrap for season 4(!) of our podcast Central Europe Explained, which contains some of my favourite of the now 60+ episodes. It has been another challenging but also interesting year, listen to the IDM team’s outlook and me struggling to find an optimistic approach for 2025

Balazs Orbán recently received his PhD (under, let's say, interesting circumstances). DER STANDARD already appoints him as a university professor, but conceals who he actually is.

„When you have no future, you vote for the past“, a sentence I read today in Georgi Gospodinovs „Time Shelter“ and it resonates more than it should.

New year, new challenges and new resolutions! Our team brainstormed today where the journey continues, and how we can better cater to your needs and expectations!💡And what are your suggestions? Feel free to share them in comments 👇 or through private messages.

🤔Do you know who established the Institute for the Danube Region (IDM) and what its original name was? Do you know where the first headquarters of the IDM were located? 1/3

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Wir erweitern unser Team! In Kooperation mit dem slowenischen Institut Iskriva setzen wir das transnationale Projekt „Culture trAnSforming communiTies and economies“ (CAST) um. Hierfür suchen wir zum 1. April 2025 eine Projektassistenz. Mehr Infos👉idm.at/jobs/

Third and final webinar in our series with the Research Service of the Verkhovna Rada. We discussed Europe’s future, different integration models like staged accession or the Greater European Council. Again 100 participants, great questions, fantastic experience. Tbc in Kyiv!

What IDM says. It was an ok run. Or as my son would say „da da“ 👋 Find me Stephen Schaeffer.bsky.social