In this episode of The VoiCEE podcast, the team from Reporting Democracy discusses their just-released “Trends Report 2023: War in Ukraine Focuses Minds”, which identifies and examines the trends in the region that will play out over the rest of this year.

The trends are: State of Democracy: Belief Returns but New Social Contract Needed; The Future of Energy: Picking Up the Pace of the Transition; Media Freedom: A Page Turner; Poverty In the Region: One Direction; Security on the Continent: Spending Their Way Out of Trouble; Visegrad Group: No Rekindling the Romance

What all six trends in the Trends Report share is an overarching theme forged in the fires of the war in next-door Ukraine: and that’s a new unity borne from Russia’s invasion, which has concentrated the minds of governments, strategists, policymakers and business leaders across Central Europe, Southeast Europe and the rest of the EU.

You can read the full “Trends Report 2023” here.