📣 New #GEOPOWEREU Case Study! 🇲🇰 Our report examines North Macedonia's €1.3bn Bechtel–Enka motorway project, showing how even legally compliant infrastructure projects can weaken procurement, oversight & accountability. 🔗 bit.ly/3U9gGtv

1/3📣Can games🎮 help us understand Europe's changing geopolitical landscape? On 15 July, #GEOPOWEREU researcher Dr. Gajić explored this question at the Summer School on Serious Games & World Politics in 🇭🇷 through an interactive session on the W. Balkans & Eastern Partnership

📣 GEO-POWER-EU research was presented at #ESSC2026 in Stockholm! 🇸🇪 Our panel, Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check, examined how the EU's 🇪🇺 geopolitical turn is reshaping enlargement and relations with the Western Balkans & Eastern Partnership. More ℹ️🔗 bit.ly/4fybVB6

🎙️ In the latest podcast of our sister project REUNIR Horizon, Srdjan Cvijic and Tony Lawrence discuss 🇪🇺 European security, 🛡️ EU defence policy, and 🤝 EU–NATO relations in a changing geopolitical landscape. 🎧 Listen: lnkd.in/dzunpgKv

GEO-POWER-EU researcher Dr Tena Prelec visited 🇰🇿 in June, presenting project findings on corrosive capital & illicit finance at Maqsut Narikbayev University, in policy discussions 🤝 w/ 🇰🇿 authorities & 🇬🇧 Embassy Astana as well as at the CESS conference hosted by Nazarbayev University 🔗 bit.ly/4pb8MLI

1/ 📢 Can decarbonisation succeed where energy poverty remains deeply entrenched? Our new #GEOPOWEREU report examines the interconnections between energy security⚡, energy poverty 🏠, and EU 🇪🇺 integration in 🇷🇸 Serbia🇷🇸, Bosnia & Herzegovina🇧🇦, Kosovo🇽🇰, Moldova 🇲🇩, and Ukraine🇺🇦.

1/ Our 4th newsletter is out!🔗 bit.ly/4oZq6U2  What's inside: 
🔍 All 3 GEO-POWER-EU indices now live: Interdependence, Exposure Risk & Strategic Autonomy 📄 New reports & case studies on disinformation, corrosive capital, economic convergence, brain drain & green energy

1/ 👉🏼Based on 9,000+ survey📉 respondents and 10 focus groups across nine countries 🇦🇱🇧🇦🇽🇰🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸🇺🇦🇲🇩🇬🇪 our report explores the drivers of #emigration.

1/ 📢 GEO-POWER-EU researcher Prof. Olga Brusylovska (Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University) presented key project findings at the BASEES 2026 Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Birmingham and the University of Edinburgh

1/How resilient national decision-making processes to external influence in WB&Associated Trio?Our Strategic Autonomy Index examines the extent to which countries are able to make domestic policy decisions independently, highlighting both strengths&areas of vulnerability 🔗https://shorturl.at/wFwyT👇

1/ “We should not judge investment by whose flag is behind it, but by the way it is behaving and what are the consequences that are left after the investment,” — says Dr. Sonja Stojanovic Gajic, in our latest GEO-POWER Talks Episode. 👇

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🎙️GEOPOWER Talks – #Ep7 is out🔗shorturl.at/hraT7 In this episode, @asumankubra.bsky.social is joined by Dr. Sonja Stojanovic & M. Țurcanu to discuss how foreign investment shapes governance, accountability& political influence—from the Chișinău Airport concession🇲🇩 to mining projects in🇧🇦

📢 GEO-POWER-EU researcher Dr. Yuliia Tarasiuk (ONU) presented findings on anti-European disinformation in Ukraine 🇺🇦 at a seminar held @maynoothuniversity.ie on 21 April, covering the Euromaidan period and Russia's full-scale war. 📊 🔗 shorturl.at/UHnFj 📄 Case Study: bit.ly/3ZzGHlp

GEO-POWER-EU Findings on Anti-European Disinformation in Ukraine Presented at Maynooth University - Geo Power

GEO-POWER-EU Findings on Anti-European Disinformation in Ukraine Presented at Maynooth University On 21 April, GEO-POWER-EU was presented at a seminar titled “Anti-European Disinformation in Ukraine d...

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1/🆕case study👉🏼Corrosive Capital in Transport Hubs:The Chișinău Airport Concession. In 2013,🇲🇩handed 49year lease of its airport to a company incorporated weeks earlier,thru closed tender that violated procurement law, followed by decade of opaque ownership,foreign-linked influence& rent extraction.🧵👇

📢 Our consortium partner Democratization Policy Council has launched a new podcast: DPC Voice 🎙️ Hosted by Dr. Valery Perry, the series features conversations on democracy, governance, and global geopolitics — with guests from across Europe and beyond. Listen here🎧 bit.ly/4og8dzL

1/Partners reviewed progress, discussed upcoming work (co-creation studios, research, serious game, dissemination & others), and held a strategic foresight workshop on alternative geopolitical scenarios for the #WB and Associated Trio.

1/On 3 June, #GEOPOWEREU held an event titled" 🇲🇩 and 🇺🇦 on the EU Accession Path amid War &Uncertainty".Dr.Liubomir Chiriac (IDIS "Viitorul")opened event noting that geographical integration&fight against 🇷🇺 aggression are interconnected processes essential to the security&democratic future of region

🎙️GEOPOWER Talks – #Ep7 is out🔗shorturl.at/hraT7 In this episode, @asumankubra.bsky.social is joined by Dr. Sonja Stojanovic & M. Țurcanu to discuss how foreign investment shapes governance, accountability& political influence—from the Chișinău Airport concession🇲🇩 to mining projects in🇧🇦

📣New #GEOPOWEREU case study: The Chișinău Airport Concession In this report, we examine how 🇲🇩's airport was handed to a foreign-linked company through a closed tender & shielded from oversight for years & how stronger transparency rules could have prevent it 🔗https://shorturl.at/diI6N 1/

🚨Upcoming Event #GEOPOWEREU will hold a conference on 3 June in🇲🇩, organized by its project partner IDIS“Viitorul”. The event will explore 🇲🇩&🇺🇦’s EU path amid war & uncertainty, focusing on the geopolitical pressures shaping their 🇪🇺 future Registration: shorturl.at/4h78a

1/ 📣GEO-POWER-EU researcher Asst. Prof. Tena Prelec joins Seriously Balkans Podcast to discuss corrosive capital in the Western Balkans, from Serbia’s 🇷🇸 lithium projects to Belgrade Waterfront in Montenegro 🇲🇪 and Vareš in BiH🇧🇦🎙️https://bit.ly/4dVqUoM

1/ What does it look like when Western-backed investment reproduces the same dynamics as the corrosive capital it claims to counter? Our case study on the Vareš mining project in BiH🇧🇦 examines corrosive capital — and what it costs when the source is a liberal democracy. 🧵👇

Our sister project REUNIR released a new paper on how the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM 🇺🇦) must evolve for the 🇪🇺 to remain strategically relevant & strengthen long-term support for Ukraine. Read the full paper 🔗 lnkd.in/d3UCM4VG

1/ How does a regional leader spend 19 years attacking the EU 🇪🇺, while simultaneously demanding EU membership? Our case study on Milorad Dodik's disinformation campaign in 🇧🇦 reveals what that contradiction tells us about elite-driven information manipulation. 🧵👇

1/ What does it look like when a country becomes the primary target of an information war — and then builds the infrastructure to fight back? Our case study on anti-European disinformation in 🇺🇦 traces how Russian-aligned narratives were built, localised, and broadcast by domestic actors. 🧵👇

1/ How did student protests in 🇷🇸 get reframed as a foreign-orchestrated conspiracy? Our new case study examines how the "colour revolution" narrative was deployed following the Novi Sad tragedy and what it reveals about disinformation as a tool of governance. 🧵👇

2/…and how they interact synergistically for each other, but detrimentally for citizens. The study informed wider research undertaken by @geopower-eu.bsky.social Link to case study here: geo-power.eu/portfolio/it...

D3.3 I The Vareš Mining Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Case Study of Corrosive Capital in an Already Corroded Political Economy - Geo Power

The Vareš Mining Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Case Study of Corrosive Capital in an Already Corroded Political Economy The GEO-POWER-EU project has published a case study on the Vareš mining p...

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📣New #GEOPOWEREU case study: The Vareš Mining Project in🇧🇦 The study explores how Western-backed investment in BiH created governance challenges, and calls for "democratically reinforcing capital" aligned with the #EU standards to address them. Read here 🔗bit.ly/3OWKXcU

📣#GEOPOWEREU PI Prof @tzifakis.bsky.social (UoP) participated in the Annual ETI Department Conference at College of Europe in Tirana! He presented research on 🇪🇺ontological security & drew on #GEOPOWEREU findings on economic interdependence between the #WB& #EaP 🔗bit.ly/4cfPv7c

1/ Our sentiment analysis report (🔗 bit.ly/4aF06rx) reveals that, despite being the least-discussed actor (14% of mentions), the 🇪🇺 is the most positively perceived international actor on 🇺🇦 social media, with sentiment growing stronger across all major political events studied among 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇹🇷

Missed our latest GEO-POWER-EU Talks episode? 🎙️ Catch up this weekend with a deep dive into foreign influence and disinformation in the Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership. Listen here 👉bit.ly/4cj22Ho

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🎙️New GEO-POWER-EU Talks 👉 Foreign Influence Challenges: #Disinformation in the Western Balkans and Associated Trio 🔗https://bit.ly/4cj22Ho