Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) can lead to greener, more responsible investment. But standards remain irregular: creating common denominators will...
Analysis
Moldova will hold a snap parliamentary election on July 11. Ever since she was elected president of Moldova in November last year, Maia Sandu has made little secret of...
There are fewer democracies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia than at any point in the past 26 years, according to a new report from human rights watchdog...
Lithuania needs to prioritise energy efficiency and design a renewable energy strategy, a new International Energy Agency review finds. Lithuania has made impressive...
Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have a long way to go before they can claim to have closed the gender gap, according to a new report from the World Economic...
Since the turbulent 1990s, Islamist extremism has refused to completely disappear from Central Asia. Over the past decade, the unending conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq...
Serbia could be sitting on as much as 10 per cent of the world’s lithium, increasingly in demand by the manufacturers of batteries for electric cars. But getting...
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is set to win a record third term in office after his Socialist party took around 50 per cent of the vote in a parliamentary election...
Our weekly digest 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...
Oskar Żyndul is the organiser of a campaign determined to shake up what he feels is the often lazy – and heavily contested – linkage of Poles to Catholicism...
War between Russia and Ukraine no longer looks imminent. We speak to locals in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv – who despite some reports to the contrary –...
Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has become a figure of fun across the world thanks to his idiosyncratic, often surreal public appearances...
