NATO foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels on December 5, have given Bosnia the green light to take a major step forward on its path toward joining the military...
Emerging Europe Insight
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The transport ministers of the countries of the Danube region met with EU Commissioner Violeta Bulc in Brussels this week and reaffirmed their commitment to an effective...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told Armenia that the country’s financial system remains vulnerable due to high levels of dollarisation and insufficient...
The European Committee of the Regions (COR) has published a new report addressing the local and regional dimension of the European Union’s brain drain. The report...
Around 500,000 Belarusians have been included in a database of the able-bodied citizens not currently employed in the economy. The figures were made public by the...
Johann Strobl, the CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International, has said that the bank has enough capital to consider acquisitions and is interested in expanding in the Czech...
Television remains the dominant advertising media type in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe, although digital, partly thanks to online videos, is catching up...
Salome Zurabishvili, a French-born former foreign minister, has been elected Georgia’s first female president. Mrs Zurabishvili comfortably beat rival Grigol Vashadze...
A new Eurobarometer survey ahead of next May’s European elections has revealed that a majority of EU citizens are worried that disinformation campaigns, data...
Belarus has announced plans to borrow up to two billion US dollars on foreign financial markets in order to refinance the state’s foreign debt. “During the period...
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko called for a declaration of martial law on November 26 following Russia’s illegal seizure of three Ukrainian navy...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. We start with the Guardian, which claims that a new...