Andraž Tavčar

Andraž Tavčar is executive editor of The Adriatic, covering politics, ideas and governance.

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Recent pieces

• 28 by 28

  Montenegro may become the EU's 28th member by 2028. You have to admit, going off the title alone, it is catchy, and we're just getting started.

• No problem a phone call can't solve

  As Aleksandar Vučić trades the presidency for the premiership, he is betting on a model of governance in which nothing works unless he personally makes it work.

• Let your children screw up

  A generation spared every mistake will eventually inherit problems it has never been allowed to practise solving.

• The price of comfort

  Slovenia recycles 59.8 per cent of its municipal waste, yet only 10.1 per cent of the material entering its economy comes from recovered sources. The gap is not a Slovene anomaly but a European one, and it has stopped being an environmental question.

• Putin-proofing Europe. One cow at a time

  The EU wants a sevenfold increase in biomethane by 2030 to replace Russian gas. It has the technology and the feedstock. What it lacks is the regulatory architecture to connect them.