The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has, in an unprecedented move, publicly declared Belarus non-compliant with its anti-corruption...
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Labour market performance in the Western Balkans continued to improve, albeit at a slower pace than the previous year and despite stronger economic growth in the region...
Henrik Hololei, the European Commission’s director-general for mobility and transport, has warned the Chinese investors ready to finance a tunnel linking the...
The Czech Republic has the highest job vacancy rate in the European Union, according to new data published by Eurostat on March 18. At six per cent, the vacancy rate in...
The European Union has welcomed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s decision to pardon a number of jailed political prisoners. Among those pardoned are representatives...
The Baltic states can no longer cast themselves in the role of a bridge between Russia and the West, the Latvian foreign minister, Edgars Rinkēvičs, has said in an...
Five years on from an irregular and highly-disputed referendum which confirmed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, NATO has strongly condemned what it calls “a...
The Venice Commission has raised concerns over Hungary’s decision in December 2018 to create a system of administrative courts with their own high court and...
Zuzana Čaputová, a progressive anti-corruption lawyer who entered politics only a year ago, comfortably won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election on March...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them here...
Slovak chip producer Tachyum has announced that it has received capital from the Slovak government worth almost 17 million US dollars to help build a new research and...
Slovenia’s BioApp platform, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) has become the focal point for research ideas on developing smart biomass...
